War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Map of encampment at Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, 1745 (Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) 50°21'00"N 07°36'00"E; (Ehrenbreitstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) 50°21'36"N 07°37'12"E
1745 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:11,900 approx. | RCIN 729075
Additional text: [left, below title, a list of the regiments and places where (since they lacked tents) they were cantoned. Top right, a key, A-I, K-U, W, a-i, k-p, to the locations and names of the encamped regiments:] Explication des Lettres / des Regiments qui ont Campé [centre left, a vignette depicting a view of Ehrenbreitstein from the confluence of the Moselle with the Rhine:] Prospect d’Ehrnbreitstein du Côte de la Moselle.
Condition: five fold lines; surface dirt to both sides. Verso: induced discolouration.
Johann Carl Treu (active 1744-6) (draughtsman)
Subject(s)
Army-HanoverArmy-DutchArmy-AustriaArmy-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Watermark: Fleur-de-lys; countermark: C & I HONIG
Mark, stamped: 417
Condition: five fold lines; surface dirt to both sides. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: 1:11,900 approx. Scale bar: [68 mm =] 1000 Pass.
33.7 x 39.8 cm (neatline)
34.1 x 40.2 cm (image)
37.2 x 43.9 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / dans les environs d'Ehrnbreitstein / ou l'Armée des Alliees s'assembla / le 15e Avril 1745. [left]
Manuscript title:
Lit: C. [top right, inside neatline]
Additional text:
Explication des Lettres / des Regiments qui ont Campé [left, below title, a list of the regiments and places where (since they lacked tents) they were cantoned. Top right, a key, A-I, K-U, W, a-i, k-p, to the locations and names of the encamped regiments]; Prospect d’Ehrnbreitstein du Côte de la Moselle. [centre left, a vignette depicting a view of Ehrenbreitstein from the confluence of the Moselle with the Rhine]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Coblentz 15 April 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil, erased:] X/98.
George III catalogue entry:
Coblentz Plan dessiné dans les Environs d'Ehrnbreitstein et pres de Coblence, où l'Armée des Alliés s'assembla et campa le 15 Avril 1745; par I.C. Treu Ing.r [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50°21'00"N 07°36'00"E)
Ehrenbreitstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50°21'36"N 07°37'12"E)
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