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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

EUGÈNE HENRI FRICX (1644-1730)

Map of the Netherlands, 1745

1745 or later

Etching and engraving; hand-coloured. Printed from four copperplates on four sheets of paper; the sheets are mounted together on canvas to give the appearance of a dissected map. | Scale: 1:110,000 approx. Scale bars cropped. | RCIN 729064

A set of four (sheets 2, 3, 7, 8) out of 15 engraved sheets of Crepy's revision (1743-4), on different sheetlines, of Fricx's Carte des Pays Bas et des frontières de France (Brussels, 1703-12). It is one of nine sets in K.Mil., of varying sheet numbers, of the reissues and revised republications of Fricx's map by Crepy or Covens and Mortier in the 1740s. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top (compass rose).

The relationship between the sheetlines of Crepy's map, and Fricx's map from which it is derived, is illustrated in Lemoine-Isabeau 1984, pp.86-7.

This printed map has been used as a base map on which the engineer, François Hancko, has superimposed in manuscript the encampments of the Allied army for the year 1745.

  • Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)

    Etienne Louis Crepy (c.1700-59) (mapseller and publisher)

    François Hancko (active 1741-8) (cartographer)

    Subject(s)

    Army-France
    Army-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)
  • Watermark: Chaplet and indistinct name: [T, castle] DUPUY BU[?] AUVERGNE 1742

    Condition: five fold lines; surface dirt along right edge. Verso: bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch, which has caused cockling of the paper, from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label; heavy surface dirt along right edge consistent with the map having been stored as a roll

  • Scale: 1:110,000 approx. Scale bars cropped.

    95.0 x 125.5 cm (image and sheet, including canvas gussets)

  • [Title not present:] [CARTE / DES PROVINCES DES / PAYS BAS / Contenant / les Comtés de Flandre, de Hainault, / de Cambresis, le Duche de Brabant / partie des Duchés de Luxembourg / de Limbourg, de Julliers l'Evêché de / Liege, Boulenois et frontiere de Picardie.] [Sheets 2, 3, 7, 8, of a set of 15.]

    Manuscript title:

    Carte de l'Aneé [sic] 1745 avec toutes les Campaments de L'Armeé / Francoise Sous le comandement du Roÿ / et avec la Battaille de Fontenoÿ l'Affaire de Melle et d'Asche / et avec les Sieges de Ville de Cette Campayne. [a manuscript title, written in red ink on a paper label pasted to the map, bottom left]

    Additional text:

    Toutes les campaments de l'Armeé Françoise sont en Rouge / et les Marches Routes en jaune et pointe en Rouge. / Les campaments de L'Armeé des Allieé sont en Verd / Les campaments sont distinque par les chiffres et dattes les / chiffres sont mise ou L'Armeé a fait le front. les detache / ment ont le même chiffres du campament. / Les Retranchement et Batterie sont en Rouge et Repassez / avec le jaune. [bottom left, below manuscript title, manuscript]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: IX/64 Military.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [left of centre, black pencil:] 874; [right of centre, blue biro on a 1980s red-printed Royal Library label:] IX 64 Netherlands Fontenoy Melle Asch; [right of centre, black pencil:] C No 37-1; [top right, ink crossed out in red:] Theatre; [right centre, title label in Hancko's hand, ink:] Carte de l'Anneé 1745: / avec toutes les campements / de l'Armeé Françoise sous / le comandement du Roÿ. / et avec la Battaille de / Fontenoÿ l'affaire de Melle / et d'Asche et avec les Sieges / de Villes de cette campagne.

    Associated K. Mil. Dummy Sheet:

    Title [ink:] 4 Sheets of Crepy's Edition of Friex's Map of the Netherlands: with the Encampments of the / French Army under the command of the King, the Battle of Fontenoy, the affairs of Melle and / Asch, and the Sieges of Towns in the Campaign [sic] of 1745. MS. / A Roll ........ [black pencil:] 1 Table 2.d / [red ink:] Encampments in the Netherlands 1745 [black pencil, in a less neat hand:] Other Copies of this Map. Geography CII/41.
    Watermark: BUDGEN & WILMOTT 1810.
    Size: 46.9 x 32.5 cm (sheet).

    George III catalogue entry:

    Netherlands 4 Sheets of Crepy's Edition of Friex's Map of the Netherlands; with the Encampments of the French Army under the command of the King; the Battle of Fontenoy, the Affairs of Melle and Asche, and the Sieges of Towns in the campaign of 1745. MS.

  • Subject(s)

    Brabant [Belgium]

    Flanders [Belgium]

  • 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

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  • 3 November 2024