War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14)
Sieges, marches, encampments and famous battles from 1701 to 1712 in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Map of Trarbach, 1704 (Traben-Trarbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) 49°57'02"N 07°06'56"E
1704 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated | RCIN 725045
This plan appears to have been removed from a volume of manuscript maps and plans of sieges. Other maps, perhaps in a different hand but, apparently from the same volume, are scattered throughout the collection: RCINs [724061], [724090], 725007, 725009, 725011, 725013, 725021, 725023, 725027, 725030, 725032, 725041, [725044], 725047, [725055], 725074, 725087, 725098, 726007, 726014, 726022, 726041, 726045, 726053, 726065, 726073, 726080, 726086, 726090, 727004, 727007, 727011, 727013, 727014.
Additional text: [top right, below title, in title panel, a key, A-G to the town, castle, first battery, place where one went up on Friday and Sunday 23 November 1704, the second battery, approaches, etc.:] Explication. [A note at the end of the key reads:] Cette place à eté investée / le 2de Nov: les Batteries / sont tirées le 17 du méme / mois et à capitulée 18 8be / 1704 attaque par le Directeur de ms. Tronge.
Condition: no fold lines; gilt edges top, right and bottom. Verso: induced discolouration; remains of guard.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-Allied army (War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714)Watermark: Countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 84
Condition: no fold lines; gilt edges top, right and bottom. Verso: induced discolouration; remains of guard
Scale: not stated
49.9 x 34.0 cm (image and neatline)
52.8 x 36.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan de la Ville / et Chataeu [sic] de / TRAERBACH. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[top right, below title, in title panel, a key, A-G to the town, castle, first battery, place where one went up on Friday and Sunday 23 November 1704, the second battery, approaches, etc.:] Explication. [A note at the end of the key reads:] Cette place à eté investée / le 2de Nov: les Batteries / sont tirées le 17 du méme / mois et à capitulée 18 8be / 1704 attaque par le Directeur de ms. Tronge.
Annotations:
George III heading: Traerbach invested by the Allies 2 Nov. and taken 18 Dec. 1704.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil, beneath the old heading, a rough form of the old heading]; [top right, ink:] 102. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] 4/50.
George III catalogue entry:
Traerbach Plan dessiné de la Ville et Chateau de Traerbach investi par les Alliés le 2 Nov.re et pris le 18 Dec.re 1704.
Subject(s)
Traben-Trarbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49°57'02"N 07°06'56"E)
