Watermark: A horn in crowned shield, a ‘4’ suspending the letters WR below

Mark, stamped: 89

Condition: six fold lines; worn along folds; a small tear on left edge repaired with paper strip pasted to verso before being laid down on linen. Verso: bottom left, a water-stained patch from removal of Cumberland's cipher label; considerably cut down: only a corner of the shadow of the old cipher label remains

Scale: 1:22,600 approx. Scale bar: An English Mile [71 mm =].

33.4 x 43.6 cm (image and neatline)

33.8 x 44.1 cm (sheet)

Manuscript title:

A PLAN of the Confederate Incampment at / VLIERBEEK Ab: and BIERBECK Bar: / and that of the Enemy at BETLEHEM / and TERBANK near LOVAIN / 19. Iuly 1705. [top centre, in cartouche representing draped material]

Additional text:

[bottom right, in rectangular panel, a key, A-E, to the camps of Marlborough and Overkirk [Hendrik van Nassau, Heer van Ouwerkerk (1640-1708)], the two trains of artillery and the camps and artillery of the French and Spanish:] Explanation.

Annotations:

George III heading: Encampments at Vlierbeek and Betlehem 19 July 1705.

Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, black pencil, cropped:] [19 July] 1705. (Verso) [bottom, left of centre, ink, obscured by linen:] July 24 1705; [bottom left, black pencil:] II/20; [top, left of centre, ink, obscured by linen:] 2; [right centre, red pencil:] 20.

George III catalogue entry:

Encampment A drawn Plan of the Confederate Encampment at Vlierbeek and Bierbeck, and that of the Enemy at Bethlehem and Terbank near Louvain, the 19.^th July 1705: by A. Spencer. [The same entry appears under the headings Betlehem and Vlierbeek.]

Probably 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)