Sieges, marches, encampments and battles in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Sieges, marches, encampments and battles in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Etching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: 1:18,900 approx. | RCIN 726025
Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783)
Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783) (publisher) [top right, below title, in title cartouche:] Se vend à AMSTERDAM / Chez COVENS et MORTIER. / Sur la Copie de Bruxelles chez / E.H. Friex. nouvellement / Corrigée.
Fricx: Rue de la Magdaleine, Brussels (Eugène Henri Fricx (January 1644-18 December 1730)) (cartographer)
Watermark: Cropped, letters WM
Condition: one fold line. Verso: offsetting from same print; top left, water-stained patch, shadow and ghosting, from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label: VOL II / 67
Scale: 1:18,900 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de Trois Cent Toises. [31mm =].
29.3 x 31.8 cm (image and neatline)
31.0 x 34.0 cm (platemark)
34.7 x 40.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN DE LA VILLE / et Citadelle de / TOURNAY / Investie par les Allies le 29 Juin 1709. / Dont la Trenchée ayant esté ouverte la / nuit du 7 a 8 Juillet, on toucha la / Chamade pour la Ville le 28. du même mois. [top right, in cartouche]
Additional text:
[bottom right, in rectangular panel, a key, A-G, to the lines of circumvallation, communication bridges, the three attacks on the town and the attack on the citadel:] RENVOY.
Annotations:
George III heading: Tournay 1709.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil:] 78. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 67.; [top right, black pencil:] 78; [bottom right, ink:] B [and underneath it, black pencil:] 8; [centre, red pencil, crossed out in red pencil:] 67; [centre, sideways on, red pencil:] 67.
George III catalogue entry:
Tournay Plan du Siege de la Ville et Citadelle de Tournay en 1709, sur la copie de Friex, chez Covens et Mortier.
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)
Tournai, Walloon Region, Belgium (50°36'25"N 03°23'21"E)
M. van Egmond, Covens & Mortier. A map publishing house in Amsterdam 1685-1866 Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography 8, Houten 2009