War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14)
Sieges, marches, encampments and famous battles from 1701 to 1712 in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Siege of Tournai, 1709
LE VERITABLE PLAN / DE LA VILLE ET CITADELLE DE / TOURNAY
1709 or laterEtching and engraving; printed from two copperplates on two sheets of paper, joined; hand-coloured. Mounted on two pieces of coarse linen, stitched together; edged with cerise silk ribbon; one pink linen tie to top edge [no ties missing]; one brass ring for hanging missing from top left and top right corners. | Scale: 1:5,100 approx. | RCIN 726026
The attacks were led by Carl Philipp, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum (1650-1719), supreme commander of the Prussian troops, Lieutenant-General François Nicolaas, Baron von Fagel (1645-1718), and Johann Matthias von der Schulenberg (1661-1747).
Additional text: [below title, a key, 1-20, to named bastions, a well, mine galleries, and other named fortification structures:] Explication des Chifres.
Condition: four fold lines; some brown discolouration. Verso: brown staining; heavy surface dirt, especially along top edge; the pattern of dirt is consistent with the map having been rolled and tied.
Anna Beek (1657-1717) (publisher) [bottom left, inside neat line:] A la Haye chez / Anna Beek avec / Privilege.
Pieter van Call (active 1706-15) (engraver) [bottom right of cartouche:] P. V. Cal. Fecit
Watermark: None visible
Condition: four fold lines; some brown discolouration. Verso: brown staining; heavy surface dirt, especially along top edge; the pattern of dirt is consistent with the map having been rolled and tied
Title [ink] Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Tournay chez Anna Beek 2 feuilles / A Roll ..... [pencil:] 5 Table 2.d / [old heading at foot of sheet:] Tournay 1709.
Watermark: crown above fleur-de-lys in shield, the entwined initials B&W below.
Size: 47.0 x 32.7 cm (sheet).Scale: 1:5,100 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de 300. Toises [115 mm =].
58.0 x 73.5 cm (neatline)
59.2 x 74.1 cm (image)
59.5 cm x [right mark cropped] (platemark of left plate)
59.8 cm x [left mark cropped] (platemark of right plate)
61.1 x 77.0 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
LE VERITABLE PLAN / DE LA VILLE ET CITADELLE DE / TOURNAY. [bottom left, in cartouche depicting a lion's hide]
Additional text:
[below title, a key, 1-20, to named bastions, a well, mine galleries, and other named fortification structures:] Explication des Chifres.
Annotations:
George III heading black pencil: Military. [bottom right:] Tournay.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil:] 76; [bottom right, black pencil, in a twentieth-century hand:] VI.26-1709 [in a different, eighteenth-century hand?:] Tournay; [left of ‘La Citadelle’ on the map, ink, in a contemporary hand?:] Novelle Attacque de Gnll Schoulenberg. (Verso) [top right, red pencil:] II/64; [bottom right, ink on a contemporary label:] II/64; [bottom right, black pencil:] Tournay 1709; [bottom, right of centre, blue biro on a 1980s red-printed Royal Library label:] VI 26.
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
Title [ink] Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Tournay chez Anna Beek 2 feuilles / A Roll ..... [pencil:] 5 Table 2.d / [George III heading at foot of sheet:] Tournay 1709.
Watermark: crown above fleur-de-lys in shield, the entwined initials B&W below.
Size: 47.0 x 32.7 cm (sheet).George III catalogue entry:
Tournay Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Tournay avec les Attaques de 1709: chez Anna Beek. 2 feuilles.
Subject(s)
Tournai, Walloon Region, Belgium (50°36'25"N 03°23'21"E)
