War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
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Order of battle, British army, 1742
ORDER OF BATTLE For 16,000 BRITISH TROOPS Order'd / for Forreign Service in 1742
1742 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; some pricking through | 35.8 x 51.7 cm (image) | RCIN 728053
The tentative attribution to Schulz is made on stylistic grounds. The General Officers under Marshal the Earl of Stair are Lieutenant-Generals Campbel, the Earl of Dunmore, and Honeywood; Major-Generals Legonier, Cope, Howard, Earl of Albemarle and Hawley. Regiments are named. The horse and dragoon regimental rectangles are diagonally coloured blue and white, the infantry regiments are in red and white.
The squadrons, dragoons and battalions are: Hawley, Honywood, Lord Cadogan, 2nd Troops Horse Grenadiers, 3rd and 4th Troops Horse Guards, Royal Reg.t Horse Guards; 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions Foot Guards, Howard, Duroure, Bligh, Peers, Handasyde, Johnson, Ponsonby, Huske, Bragg, Campbel, Pulteney, Cornwallis; Legonier, Earl Pembroke, Cope, S.r Rob.t Rich, Campbell. This same order of battle, located in Flanders, is shown on RCIN 728054.
Condition: no fold lines; two broad bands of surface dirt along each side, recto and verso; crease marks in the paper suggest that the item may have been rolled up.
? George Augustus Schultz (active 1734-49) (draughtsman)
Watermark: V
Mark, stamped:280
Condition: no fold lines; two broad bands of surface dirt along each side, recto and verso; crease marks in the paper suggest that the item may have been rolled up
35.4 x 51.3 cm (neatline)
35.8 x 51.7 cm (image)
36.2 x 51.8 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
ORDER OF BATTLE For 16,000 BRITISH TROOPS Order'd / for Forreign Service in 1742. / [under the command of] Marshal Earl of Stair.
Annotations:
George III heading: Order of Battle 1742.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil, erased:] VIII/3[?]; [left of centre, red pencil:] 7/38.
George III catalogue entry:
Order of Battle Order of Battle for 16,000 British Troops under the Earl of Stair, ordered for foreign service in 1742. MS.
Subject(s)
Flanders [Belgium]
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