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
Oudenbosch and Rucphen, 1747
PLAN OF THE LINES / near / OUDENBOSCH
c.1747Pencil, pen, brown and black ink and some carmine on paper | Scale: 1:7,250 approx. | RCIN 730178
These lines, presumably of the Allied army, were constructed in what appears to be, by the map, an open area of wet heathland with occasional patches of woodland, traversed by roads and edged with enclosed areas. The fortified lines are located just to the north of the then village of Ruckveen (i.e. Rucphen).
Condition: six fold lines; formerly folded to 16.1 x 10.8 cm; all corners cut off diagonally; 6.6 cm tear to bottom of centre vertical fold line.
William Eyres (d. 1764) (draughtsman) [top right, below title:] Will: Eyres.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the letters VD L below; countermark: I VILLEDARY
Mark, stamped: 701
Condition: six fold lines; formerly folded to 16.1 x 10.8 cm; all corners cut off diagonally; 6.6 cm tear to bottom of centre vertical fold line
Scale: 1:7,250 approx. Scale bar: [101 mm =] 800 yards.
41.9 x 53.5 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN OF THE LINES / near / OUDENBOSCH. [top right]
Annotations:
George III heading: Oudenbosch 1747.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand, cropped:] Oudenbosch [...?] d CXIX; [right of centre, red pencil:] 48; [bottom right, black pencil:] 1747.
George III catalogue entry:
Oudenbosch A drawn Plan of the Lines near Oudenbosch, 1747: by W.m Eyres Eng.r
Subject(s)
Oudenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands (51°35'18"N 04°32'05"E)
Rucphen, North Brabant, Netherlands (51°31'54"N 04°33'30"E)
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