Map of the Netherlands, 1744-6

Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)

Covens & Mortier : Amsterdam (Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783)) (publisher)

François Hancko (active 1741-8) (cartographer) [bottom right, below title, in black ink:] Fait par F: Hancko. Ingenieur, au Servis de Sa Majesté Britanique

Subject(s)

Watermark: None visible

Condition: surface dirt along left edge; trimmed to edge of image. Verso: heavy surface dirt, the pattern of dirt is consistent with the map having been stored rolled and tied and, at another time, stored folded; bottom right, water-stained patch, shadow and fragments from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.

Scale: 1:119,500 approx [usually given as c.1:110,000.] Scale bar: Echelle de deux Lieues de Brabant [93 mm =].

121.6 x 214.6 cm (image and sheet, including canvas gussets)

[On sheet 1, not present in this set:] [Carte des Pays-Bas et des frontières de France.] [Set comprises sheets 3-6, 9-12, 15-18.]

Manuscript title:

Carte avec toutes les Campement la Battaille de / Fontenoÿ et celle de Raucoux et toutes les Retran= / chement faite par l'Armée Alliée sous le Comen= / dement de S:A:R: le Duc de Cumberland 1745 / et sous le Comendement du Marechalle Wade 1744 / et sous le Comendement de S:A:R: le Duc Charles / de Loraine, et du Corps Anglois sous le Comen= / dement de S: Excell: le Chevalier de Ligonier 1746 / Toutes les Retranchement Redoute Batterie et les / Pont construit sur les Riviere ont en Rouge / et Repassé avec jaune. [a manuscript title, referring to the manuscript annotations on the map, written in red ink on a paper label pasted to the map, bottom right]

Additional text:

♂: Marque et date du quartier General sont / aussi en Rouge / Les Marches sont aussi pointe en Rouge. / Les Anglois en Rouge, les Autrich: en Verd, les / Hanov: en jaune, les Hessois en pael bleu, les / Hollandois en Orange / Les François et leurs Campament en bleu. [manuscript title, following on from title]

Annotations:

George III heading: Military.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, ink:] Carte de Flandre & Brabant avec les campemens [sic] &c.^a 1744, 1745, 1746. par Hancko; [right edge, black pencil:] 8.; [right, below centre, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand]: 29; [right, below centre, blue biro on 1980s red-printed Royal Library label:] IX 60 Netherlands [crossed out:] Fontenoy; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand]: 29; [bottom, right of centre, ink, crossed out in red:] Theatre Netherlands

K. Mil. Dummy sheet:

Title [ink:] 12 sheets of Covens and Mortier's Edition of Friex's Map of the Netherlands; with the Encampments, / the Battles of Fontenoy and Raucoux, the Intrenchments made by the Allied Army under the / command of the Duke of Cumberland 1745; and under the command of Marshal Wade 1744; / under the command of Prince Charles of Lorraine, and the English Corps under the command / of General Ligonier 1746: by Hancko MS. / A Roll ..... [black pencil:] 1 Table 2.^d / [red ink:] Encampments in the Netherlands 1745 - 1746 [black pencil, in a less neat hand:] Other Copies of this Map. Geography CII/39 / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] Oversize.
Watermark: fleur-de-lys in shield, crown above, the enscrolled letter W below.
Size: 48.1 x 33.2 cm (sheet) [this is a larger dummy sheet than usual.]

George III catalogue entry:

Netherlands 12 Sheets of Covens and Mortier's Edition of Friex's Map of the Netherlands; with the Encampments, the Battles of Fontenoy and Raucoux, the Intrenchments made by the Allied Army under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, 1745: and under the command of Marshal Wade, 1744: under the command of Prince Charles of Lorraine and the English Corps under the command of General Ligonier, 1746: by Hancko. MS.

Bibliographic reference(s)

C. Lemoine-Isabeau, Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à la fin du XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Brussels, 1984