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 Hunsrück, 1691-1735 (Hunsrück [hill], Hesse, Germany) 51°01ʹ34ʺN 09°06ʹ03ʺE
1742-43Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on 20 sheets of paper; laid down on three pieces of coarse brown linen, stitched together; edge with cerise silk ribbon; two pink linen ties to left edge; four brass rings for hanging are missing from the top edge | Scale: 1:28,800 approx. | RCIN 724050.c
The surviving maps from this series are preserved in the Médiathèque de Metz, the Service Historique de la Défence, and the Institut Géographique National. A map covering a similar area to this three-sheet K.Mil. example is in the King's Topographical Collection in the British Library (K.Top.LXXXVIII.62).
The maps catalogued here are in a different draughting style to those of the Naudins or of Denis and are presumably, therefore, the work of Capitaine de Groth. Part 1 (RCIN 724050.a) overlaps slightly with part of the eastern edge of Map 07 in the Metz collections (RES ROL 011); none of Part 2 (RCIN 724050.b) appears to be covered by any of the other extant maps, while Part 3 (RCIN 724050.c) covers the same area as Map C08 in the collection of the Médiathèque de Metz (RES ROL 012). The different draughting style of the Royal Collection example is presumably that of Capitaine de Groth. Place-name spellings in these three sheets are rendered in German rather than in French, and other differences in detail include the omission of some of the annotations such as 'P.P.' for stone bridge at, for example, Wiebelskirchen (Wibelskircken on the Metz copy) or 'P.B.' for wooden bridge at Hamgardt (Hamgard); names are occasionally omitted, such as that of the River Austler north of Niederkirch and Winsweiller, south of Alsbrick. Occasionally there is the insertion of a name which is missing from the Metz example, such as the addition of 'Gresenhus' in between Ramberg (Bamberg) and Dernebach, south-west of Neustadt.
The area covered by these three sheets extends further east than the examples in France. Where there is some overlap, a comparison between the two shows considerable difference in detail. This ranges from the method of showing relief, to differences in outline of settlements, and in the alignment and colouring of roads, and in the spelling of place-names, of which there are numerous examples. RCIN 724050.a (near the top of the sheet) has the place-name 'Steinkahlenfels' in the vicinity of Kirn, but is rendered 'Stinkalfelds' on the Metz copy. Many place-names appear on the Royal Collection examples, but not on the Metz copy and vice-versa. Furthermore, fords marked on the original map are are not indicated on the German copy.
For further reading, see:
Villèle (1995).
P.E. Wagner, Les Naudin entre Meuse et Vosge. Metz, 2003.
M. Huguenin, 'The Naudin Family', Imago Mundi, vol.17, no.1, 1963, pp.76-89.
Condition: six modern fold lines; very worn and torn in places; paper cracked; surface dirt along right edge. Verso: surface dirt along right edge, the pattern of dirt
is consistent with the map having been rolled from right to left.
Jaques Naudin (active 1702-41) (surveyor)
Jacques Denis Naudin (b. c. 1686) (surveyor)
Jean-Jaques Naudin (b. c. 1714) (surveyor)
de Groth (active 1743) (draughtsman) [bottom left, following title:] Levée Exactement Sur les Lieux par les S:rs Naudin / Son Fils, & Denis, ingenieurs Ordinaires du Roy, / en 1736, et 1737, [following on from surveying statement:] designée par le S:r Naudin le Fils a / Versaille le 18e d’avril 1738. deligné par de Groth / capitaine ingenieur, de Son A: S: Electorale Palatine / l’an 1742, et 1743.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, a ‘4’ suspending the initials WR below
Condition: six modern fold lines; very worn and torn in places; paper cracked; surface dirt along right edge. Verso: surface dirt along right edge, the pattern of dirt
is consistent with the map having been rolled from right to leftScale: 1:28,800 approx. Scale bars: Echelle D'une Lieüe de Deux mille quatre Cents Toises [161 mm =]; Echelle de Deux mille quatre cents Toises faissant une lieüe de Chemin [162 mm =]; Echelle d'une Lieüe de deux mille quatre cents Tois [159 mm =].
217.3 x 292.0 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
CARTE / PARTICULIERE DU PAYS / D’HUNDSRUCK, AVEC LE / DUCHÉ DE DEUX PONTS, / PARTIE DU PALATINAT, / MAYENCE, ET DU COMTÉ / DE BITSCH / Bornée a gauche par la Saare depuis / Herbertzheim jusqu’a Saarebourg / & par la droite elle s’etende jusqu’a / Stromberg, Creützenach, la Mon= / tagne du Tonnere, La Vallée de S:t Lam= / bert, la ville de Neustadt, Landau et / Weisenbourg, jusqu’a la petite ville de / Bacherach sur le Rhin, &c: mise en / trois parties, auec repetitions, pour / en rendre l’usage plus commode. [bottom left, in plain rectangular cartouche]
Annotations:
George III heading: [black pencil:] Hundsruck Part 3.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil:] IV/50 Military; [bottom left, inside border, black pencil:] N.o 3. (Verso) [centre, black pencil:] Hunsdruck Pt III / I Table I.Q.3.; [top centre, red felt tip on red-printed 1980s Royal Library label:] BOX IV 50 [not present post 2013].
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Carte particuliere dessinée du Pays de Hundsruck, avec le Duché de Deux Ponts, partie du Palatinat, Mayence et le Comté de Bitsch: levée sur les lieux par le S.r Naudin, son fils et Denis Ing.rs en 1736 et 37; faite par le Capitaine de Groth Ing.r en 1742 et 43. en 3 parties. 68 feuilles. (Sur la partie N.o 2 de cette Carte on a marqué les Campemens de l’Armée du Roy depuis 1691 jusques a 1735. [The same entry appears under the heading Hundsruck.]
Subject(s)
Hunsrück [hill], Hesse, Germany (51°01ʹ34ʺN 09°06ʹ03ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
M. Huguenin, ‘The Naudin Family’, Imago Mundi, 17, no.1, 1963, pp. 76-89
M.A.C. de Villèle. ‘Les Naudin et la cartographie militaire française de 1688 à 1744’, in L’œil du cartographie et la representation geographique du Moyen Age a nos jours, Paris, 1995
P.E. Wagner, Les Naudin entre Meuse et Vosge, Metz 2003
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