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
Stockstadt, 1745
PLAN / du Tête du pont que le G:M: Lannoÿ / fit Construire par son Detachement dans / le Voisinage de Stockstadt
1745 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated | RCIN 729150
This area of the Rhine has changed so greatly, the river having been straightened, that it is not possible to pinpoint the exact location of the bridgehead. It lies on the west bank of the old Rhine, east of Gembsheim (Gimbsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate 49°46'40"N 08°22'30"E). Although the small fortification is described as a bridgehead, no bridge is shown. Major-General Lannoy, the constructor of the fortification, was an officer in the Dutch army.
Inset: [bottom left, a trompe l'oeil representation of a map on a torn, curled sheet of paper:] Petit Plan / qui designe tous / les environs de / Stockstadt. Size: 7.7 x 7.2 cm (neatline).
Additional text: [top right, below title in title panel, a key, A-E, to the location of the bridgehead, the sluice for flooding the grasslands, the abbatis along the Rhine embankment, and the intrenchments for the defence of the island.]
Condition: four fold lines; trimmed. Verso: induced discolouration.
Johann Carl Treu (active 1744-6) (draughtsman) [bottom right of title panel:] J.C. Treu.
Watermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 479
Condition: four fold lines; trimmed. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: not stated
19.9 x 30.8 cm (neatline)
21.4 x 31.0 cm (image)
22.8 x 33.6 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / du Tête du pont que le G:M: Lannoÿ / fit Construire par son Detachement dans / le Voisinage de Stockstadt. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Manuscript title:
Litt: B. [top centre, outside border]
Additional text:
[top right, below title in title panel, a key, A-E, to the location of the bridgehead, the sluice for flooding the grasslands, the abbatis along the Rhine embankment, and the intrenchments for the defence of the island.]
Inset:
[bottom left, a trompe l'oeil representation of a map on a torn, curled sheet of paper:] Petit Plan / qui designe tous / les environs de / Stockstadt. Size: 7.7 x 7.2 cm (neatline).
Annotations:
George III heading: Stockstadt 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil:] near Worms; [bottom right, black pencil:] X/95. (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] X/95.
George III catalogue entry:
Stockstadt Plan dessiné du Tete du Pont que le G.M. Lannoy fit construire dans le voisinage de Stockstadt, 1745: par. I.C. Treu.
Subject(s)
Stockstadt am Rhein, Hesse, Germany (49°48'33"N 08°28'22"E)
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