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 Sas van Gent, 1748 (Sas van Gent, Zeeland, Netherlands) 51°13'39"N 03°47'55"E
1748 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:41,300 approx. | RCIN 731004
The draughtsman of this map appears to have distinguished the land between high and low water marks by stippling over a red wash. Polders, described as an expanse of land surrounded by embankments, are named and mainly coloured with a greenish wash; what appear to be the embankments are coloured yellow and may also have carried roads; the double pecked lines may have been old embankments, redundant once the land had been reclaimed, but possibly marking the existence of a track or road. The map covers the area between Fort Philipine (Philippine 51°16'51"N 03°45'35"E), Axel (51°16'00"N 03°54'30"E), and Terneuse (Terneuzen 51°20'09"N 03°49'40"E).
Additional text: [bottom right, in rectangular panel:] polder signifie une Etendue de / paiis Environné de digues [and a symbol which:] signifie Redoutes [in a different hand, or written later:] chaque son / ocupé au [bort] de la Schelde / de 20 home et 1 lieutenant il se trouve / dans ces Redoutte [?].
Condition: six fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration; surface dirt.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Navy-FranceWatermark: Indistinct: fleur-de-lys in crowned shield
Mark, stamped: 719
Condition: six fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration; surface dirt
Scale: 1:41,300 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de trois quart de Lieues de Brabant [118 mm =].
54.3 x 51.4 cm (image and neatline)
58.5 x 53.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Carte particuliere depuis le fort de / Saint Andre jusques a trois quart de / Lieues audessus du fort Biervliet, et / les Environs D’axel et de Terneuse avec / une partie de la flotte de Mr. le Marechal / de Louwendal levé tres Exactement sur / les lieux le 3e mars 1748. [bottom left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[bottom right, in rectangular panel:] polder signifie une Etendue de / paiis Environné de digues [and a symbol which:] signifie Redoutes [in a different hand, or written later:] chaque son / ocupé au [bort] de la Schelde / de 20 home et 1 lieutenant il se trouve / dans ces Redoutte [?].
Annotations:
George III heading: Environs of Axel, Sas of Ghent and Ter Neuse 3 March 1748.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [right centre, edge, black pencil:] 62 [and] 13; [bottom right, black pencil:] 15; [right edge, black pencil, indistinct:] Sas de Gent [& Axel –fr.?]; [bottom left, black pencil:] Dutch Flanders. [top left, black pencil, indistinct:] CXXVII; [top centre, red pencil:] 63.
George III catalogue entry:
Sas of Ghent Carte dessinée des Environs d'Axel, Sas de Gand et Ter Neuse, avec une partie de la Flotte du Marechal de Louwendal, le 3 Mars 1748. [The same entry appears under the headings Axel and Ter Neuse.]
Subject(s)
Sas van Gent, Zeeland, Netherlands (51°13'39"N 03°47'55"E)
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