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, c.1745
1745 or laterPencil, pen and ink and watercolour on six pieces of paper, joined | Scale: not stated. 1:110,000 approx. | RCIN 729062
A useful shortcut for the military mapmaker, faced with the necessity of making extensive surveys, was to take an existing printed map and trace off the major features such as roads, rivers and settlements. The tracing would then be taken into the field where simple observation techniques would be used to add to it more detailed information. This tracing was taken from Crepy's 1740s reprint of Fricx's 1706 map of Brabant (see RCIN 729061.a) and shows the wealth of additional detail which was added to the military map. Parts of this map were enlarged to produce the map of the Brussels canal (RCIN 729136).
Condition: two folds; several other fold lines; ink stains.
George Augustus Schultz (active 1734-49) (draughtsman)
Watermark: Horn in shield, crown above, a ‘4’ suspending the letters L V G below
Mark, stamped: 406
Condition: two folds; several other fold lines; ink stains
Scale: not stated. 1:110,000 approx.
52.0 x 90.4 cm (image and sheet)
Printed title:
No title
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments in the Netherlands 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top, left of centre, black pencil, cropped, underlined, a number?]; [top, right of centre, black pencil, erased:] Netherlands + Theatre; [bottom, below old heading, black pencil, erased, cropped:] X/.
George III catalogue entry:
Netherlands A drawn Plan of part of the Netherlands, with the Encampments of the Allied Army in 1745; [in red ink:] by M.r Schultz.
Subject(s)
Netherlands
Brabant [Belgium]
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