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
Var (River), 1746
PLAN / Du Passage du Var, fait le 30 Nov: 1746. par les Armées combinées / Imperiales & Sardinoises sous les Ordres du Comte de Broune
1746 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:36,200 approx. | RCIN 730080
The area of coastline covered extends from St Laurens (Saint-Laurent-du-Var) in the North to Antibes (43°34'48"N 07°07'23"E) in the south. This episode in the campaign in Provence was reported in the London Magazine January 1747, p.76. The Allied army, comprising about 20,000 Austrian and 10,000 Piedmontese, crossed a shallow but fast-flowing 300-yards-wide section of the Var without loss.
Additional text: [top right, below title, in title cartouche, a key, A-G, to the troops commanded by Generals Novati, Baron de Roth, Neuhaus, Balbian, Jonas, etc.]
Condition: one fold line. Verso: bottom, right of centre: water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Reinier Ottens (1698-1750) and Joshua Ottens (1704-65) (publisher) [top right, bottom of title cartouche:] a Amsterdam Chez R. & I. OTTENS.
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters LVG below; countermark: IV
Condition: one fold line. Verso: bottom, right of centre: water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Scale: not stated. 1:36,200 approx.
35.3 x 49.0 cm (image)
35.0 x 48.7 cm (neatline)
35.8 x 50.6 cm (platemark)
41.7 x 57.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN / Du Passage du Var, fait le 30 Nov: 1746. par les Armées combinées / Imperiales & Sardinoises sous les Ordres du Comte de Broune. [top right, in rococo cartouche, embellished with the artefacts of war]
Additional text:
[top right, below title, in title cartouche, a key, A-G, to the troops commanded by Generals Novati, Baron de Roth, Neuhaus, Balbian, Jonas, etc.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Passage of the Var 30 Nov.r 1746.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [right centre, red pencil:] 56.
George III catalogue entry:
Var Plan du Passage du Var fait le 30 Nov.re 1746 par les Armées combinées Imperiales et Sardinoises sous les ordres du Comte de Broune. chez Ottens.
Subject(s)
St-Laurent-du-Var (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) 43°40'15"N 07°10'33"E
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