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.

From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), third son of George II; subsequently acquired by George III (1738-1820)