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
Netherlands, 1745
L'on peût distinguer les campements par les / chiffres et dattes. Les chiffres sont mise ou L'Armée / a fait le front. Les Marche Routes sont en bleu / Les Retranchements sont en Rouge et repasse / avec le jaune. / Les Nations...
1745 or laterEngraving and etching; printed from four copperplates on four sheets of paper; hand-coloured. Manuscript annotations in ink and watercolour. | Scale: 1:119,500 approx. [usually given as ca 1:110,000] | RCIN 729061.a
A set of four (sheets 3,4,8,9) out of fifteen engraved sheets of Crepy's revision (1743-4), on different sheetlines, of Fricx's Carte des Pays Bas et des frontières de France (Brussels, 1703-1712). War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top (compass rose).
The titles of the top two sheets (sheets 3 and 4) have been pasted to the top of the sheets. From left to right, the titles and imprints are:
CARTE DES ENVIRONS DE GAND L'ECLUSE BRUGE HULST AXEL DEINSE LE SAS DE GAND &c. / Dressé sur les Memoires de Eugène Henri frix en 1743 à Paris Chez Crepy rue S. Jacques a limage S. Pierre
CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE MALINES ANVERS LIER HERENTALS AERSCHOT &c. / Dressé sur les Memoires de Eugène Henri frix en 1743 a Paris Chez Crepy rue S. Jacques a limage S. Pierre.
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 marches, encampments and field fortifications of the Allied army for the year 1745. Some of the French positions are shown in blue. It is one of nine sets, of varying sheet numbers, of the reissues and revised republications of Fricx's map by Crepy or Covens and Mortier in the 1740s which are in the Royal Collection.
The four sheets are trimmed to the neatline on their inner margins and mounted together on linen; the outer margins are trimmed to the edge of the border. An engraved map of the Battle of Fontenoy is pasted to the bottom right of the south-east sheet [sheet 9]. See RCIN 729061.b for more information on this map. The printed titles of sheets 3 and 4 are pasted along the top.
Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)
Etienne Louis Crepy (c.1700-59) (cartographer, print seller and publisher)
François Hancko (active 1741-8) (cartographer) [bottom right, bottom of manuscript title label:] Fait par Hancko Ingenieur au servis de sa Majeste Britanique.
Watermark: None visible
Scale: 1:119,500 approx. [usually given as ca 1:110,000] Scale bars: Echelle de deux Lieux [sic] et demie Comune [sic] de France [96 mm =]; Echelle de deux Lieues de Brabant [93 mm =].
95.6 x 126.0 cm (image and sheet)
[On sheet 1, not present in this set: 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 3, 4, 8, 9 of a set of 15.]
Manuscript title:
Carte avec toutes les Campements de L'Armée / des Allieé [sic] avec la Battaille de Fontenoÿ / sous le comandement de son Altesse Roÿale / Monseigneur Le Duc de Cumberland / et le Retranchement derier le canal de / Bruxelles L'Anneé 1745 ... y il ÿ a aussi un Plan agouté en grand de La / Battaille de Fontenoÿ. [red ink on a paper label pasted to the map, bottom right]
Additional text:
L'on peût distinguer les campements par les / chiffres et dattes. Les chiffres sont mise ou L'Armée / a fait le front. Les Marche Routes sont en bleu / Les Retranchements sont en Rouge et repasse / avec le jaune. / Les Nations sont distinguez par le couleurs / Les Anglois en Rouge. Les Hanoveriens en jaune. / Les Autrich[iens] en Verd. Les Hollandois en Orange / Le François en bleu. [manuscript title, following on from title]
Annotations:
George III heading: [black pencil:] Military.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right quarter panel: bottom, left of centre, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand:] 4; [top, right of centre, ink, crossed out in red pencil:] Netherlands & Theatre; [top right, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand]: 28; [right centre, red pencil:] 4; [top, right of centre fold, Royal Library label, blue ink:] IX 61 [used to be 63] / Husson / Fontenoy / Netherlands.
K. Mil. Dummy Sheet:
Title [ink:] 4 Sheets of Crepy's Edition of Friex's Map of the Netherlands; and Husson's Plan of the Battle / of Fontenoy; with the Encampments of the Army of the Allies, the Battle of Fontenoy, under / the command of the Duke of Cumberland, and the Intrenchment behind the Canal of Brussels / 1745; by Hancko MS / A Roll .... [black pencil:] 1 Table 2d / [red ink:] Encampments in the Netherlands 1745 [black pencil, in a less neat hand:] Other copies of this Map. Geography CII/41 [see entry in K.Top. catalogue].
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; and Husson's Plan of the Battle of Fontenoy: with the Encampments of the Army of the Allies, the Battle of Fontenoy, under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, and the Intrenchment behind the Canal of Brussels, 1745. by Hancko. MS.
Subject(s)
Brabant [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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