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
Siege of Mons, 1746
ATTAQUES DE MONS / A LA PORTE DE / BERTAMONT / En 1746. Attaques de Mons / a la Porte de Nimy. / le 24 Juin. / Et la Ville a Capitulé le 10 Juillet.
1746 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper; hand-coloured | Scale: 1:7,350 approx. | RCIN 730052
The siege of two unadjacent sections of the fortification are depicted in detail, showing the French saps and batteries and their encroachments on the fortifications.
Insets: [right, in irregularly-shaped panel:] Attaques de Mons / a la Port de Nimy, / le 24 Juin. / Et la Ville a Capitulé le 10 Juillet.
Scale not stated, but larger than main map.
Condition: one fold line; creased; brown stains and marks. Verso: some offsetting from another copy of the same print; bottom right, brown spotting; surface dirt along right edge; induced discolouration; top left, a water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
George Louis le Rouge (1707-93/4) (cartographer and publisher) [bottom left, below title:] à Paris / Chez le S.r Le Rouge Ing.r Géogr. / rue des Augustins.
Watermark: Three names in oval-ended rectangular cartouches, indistinct: 1) ?; 2) Heart, M O N [?C] O ???; 3) [?AUVERGNE], the date 1742 below
Condition: one fold line; creased; brown stains and marks. Verso: some offsetting from another copy of the same print; bottom right, brown spotting; surface dirt along right edge; induced discolouration; top left, a water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:7,350 approx. Scale bar: [53 mm =] 200 Toises.
29.6 x 45.7 cm (neatline)
30.1 x 46.2 cm (image)
31.7 x 47.8 cm (platemark)
34.3 x 50.7 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
ATTAQUES DE MONS / A LA PORTE DE / BERTAMONT / En 1746. [top right:] Attaques de Mons / a la Porte de Nimy. / le 24 Juin. / Et la Ville a Capitulé le 10 Juillet. [bottom left, inside neatline]
Insets:
Attaques de Mons / a la Port de Nimy, / le 24 Juin. / Et la Ville a Capitulé le 10 Juillet. Scale not stated, but larger than main map. [right, in irregularly-shaped panel]
Annotations:
George III heading: Mons 19 June - 10 July 1746.
Other annotations: (Recto) top left, black pencil, beneath old heading, illegible. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?:] 46; [top right, black pencil:] 71 [this may be the number of the recto, top left; centre, red pencil:] 46.
George III catalogue entry:
Mons Attaques de Mons a la Porte de Bertamont. Attaques de Mons a la Porte Nimy: chez le Rouge.
Subject(s)
Mons (Walloon Region, Belgium) 50°27'14"N 03°57'08"E
Page revisions
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