Map of the Netherlands, 1744

An order of battle and map of the camps and march routes of the Allied army in Brabant and Flanders in 1744. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top (cardinal points).

The key to the symbols used for the troops explains that the positions that are drawn in black mark the camps on the outward march, while those in colour represent the camps on the return journey.

The charming vignette of camp life, so typical of J.C. Treu’s work, shows a ruined farmhouse, surrounded by fascines, suggesting that it had been reinforced as a defensive position during some attack. In the foreground, two men converse with a seated woman, while two others cut wood, perhaps for the fires of the camp in the background.

The order of battle of the Allied army in Flanders gives the General Officers of the First Line as Marechaux Duc d’Arenberg, C[omte] Moritz, Nassau (as Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch), Feldt Marechal Wade; Generaux Gincsel, Wendt, Honÿwood; Lieutenant-Generaux Courriere, Hessen, Philipsdall, Wand, Duin, La Roque, Schmissart, Geisrücs, Sommerfeldt, Ligonier, Campbel; Major-Generaux Schack, Hompesch, Brackel, Constandt, Rumpf, Lanoÿ, Ariosti, Soubiron, Campbel, Pultenaÿ, Wendworck, Lonnaÿ, Montigni, Albemarle; Brigadiers M.H.v. Oyen, Schagen, Vribergen, Salis, Halckel, Effern, Bourmania, Leiden, Sckelton, Churchill, Craufort, Bland.

The General Officers of the Second Line are General Baron v. Cronstrom; Lieutenant-Generaux Coenders, Schwartzenberg, Aÿlva, Ilten, Hawleg; Major-Generaux Pschioffskÿ, Sandoville, Matche, Lewe, Villater, Mac:Hugo, Gemming, Zastrow, Howard, Onslow, St. Clair, Hammerstein, Grothe, Rothes; Brigadier-Generaux P.H.v. Oÿen, Schlippenbach, Evertsen, Sturler, Elias Rode, Heckern, Böselager, Ingolsbÿ.

A squadron from Lord Sempill's regiment is placed between the brigades of cavalry of the First and Second Lines. The Allied artillery is placed between the Second Line and the Corps de Reserve which is commanded by Lieutenant-General Barnaÿ and Major-General Torgatsch.

A recapitulation gives 59 squadrons and 38 battalions for the First Line and 55 squadrons and 32 battalions for the Second Line. The artillery have 71 pontoons [wagons], 116 cannons and 12 howitzers.

Insets: [bottom centre, in a cartouche representing a stone plinth, flanked on the left by the artefacts of war, and on the right by a vignette of a camp scene:] ORDRE DE BATTAILLE DE L'ARMEÉ [sic] DES ALLIÉS EN FLANDRE Anno 1744.

Additional text: [top, above map, an account of the movements of the army in 1744:] JOURNAL / Des mouvemens et marches que l'Armeé des Alliés a fait pendant la Campagne / de l'Année 1744, tant dans les Brabant que dans la Flandre. [top right of map, a key to colours:] Explication / des Couleurs par les quels / le differens corps sont distingué [drawn key] et ce qui est marqué par des Raÿes noir / marque les Camps des trouppes en allant / et ce qui est illumine signifie Leur Retour. [The English are in red, Hanoverians in yellow, Austrians in green, and Dutch in blue.]

Condition: two fold lines; brown discolouration; surface dirt. Verso: brown discolouration; heavy surface dirt along left edge, consistent with having been rolled; heavy surface dirt top right, consistent with being left folded, with another map on top.