War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14)
Sieges, marches, encampments and famous battles from 1701 to 1712 in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Landau, 1704
PLAN des AⱵPROCHES / et / de la Ville de / LANDAU / Pris par l’Armee Impe= / riale le 26. Novēbre 1704
1704 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on two pieces of coarse linen, stitched together | Scale: scale bar [unfinished; no statement or values given.] | RCIN 725042
Additional text: [bottom left: a key, A-I, L-N, to the crown work of the citadel, the redoubt and small forts covering the sluices, the trenches, a French redoubt, and Imperial redoubt, a Prussian battery, breach batteries, the contrescarp taken on 30 October.]
Condition: one fold line. Verso: remains of guard, now covered by linen backing; induced discolouration; bottom, right of centre: water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 82
Condition: one fold line. Verso: remains of guard, now covered by linen backing; induced discolouration; bottom, right of centre: water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: scale bar [unfinished; no statement or values given.]
45.1 x 58.4 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN des AⱵPROCHES / et / de la Ville de / LANDAU / Pris par l’Armee Impe= / riale le 26. Novēbre 1704. [bottom right]
Additional text:
[bottom left: a key, A-I, L-N, to the crown work of the citadel, the redoubt and small forts covering the sluices, the trenches, a French redoubt, and Imperial redoubt, a Prussian battery, breach batteries, the contrescarp taken on 30 October.]
Annotations:
George III heading [on white paper strip pasted to verso:] Landau invested by the Allies 12 Sept.r and taken 26 Nov.r 1704.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom, left of centre, ink or black pencil, obscured by linen backing:] Landau Sept. 1741 [and, black pencil:] 17; [bottom, left of centre, black pencil:] 17; [right centre, red pencil:] 17; [top, left of centre, black pencil, obscured by linen backing:] 56 [and:] 14.; [top right, ink, indistinct: 3].
George III catalogue entry:
Landau Plan dessiné des Approches et de la Ville de Landau prise par l'Armée Imperiale le 26 Nov.re 1704.
Subject(s)
Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49°11'54"N 08°07'00"E)
