Sieges, marches, encampments and battles in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
Anonymous
St Leeuw, 1705
St Leeuw, 1705
PLAN DE LA VILLE ET CHATEAU / DE ST: LIO, / avec l’Attaque de 1705 1705 or later
Pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:1,500 approx. | RCIN 725055
A plan of the attack on Zoutleeuw by the Allied army on 1 September 1705. War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). Oriented with west to top (compass rose).
The plan has no lettering. It shows the fortified walls in detail together with the positions of the trenches and batteries of the Allied army.
This plan appears to have been removed from a volume, made about 1719 or later, 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], 725045, 725047, 725074, 725087, 725098, 726007, 726014, 726022, 726041, 726045, 726053, 726065, 726073, 726080, 726086, 726090, 727004, 727007, 727011, 727013, 727014.
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Anonymous (cartographer)
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Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, a ‘4’ suspending the letters WR below; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 93
Condition: one fold line; four gilt edges; some foxing. Verso: remains of guard; induced discolouration
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Scale: 1:1,500 approx. Scale bar: [162 mm =] 600 R[uthen].
51.1 x 61.5 cm (image and neatline)
52.7 x 73.8 cm (sheet)
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Manuscript title:
PLAN DE LA VILLE ET CHATEAU / DE ST: LIO, / avec l’Attaque de 1705. [top left, in rectangular panel]
Annotations:
George III heading: Leeuw 1705.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, ink:] 73. (Verso) [top, right of centre, red pencil:] 1705; [top right, ink:] 73; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil:] 4/63; [bottom, right of centre, black pencil, erased:] V[/?].
George III catalogue entry:
Leeuw Plan dessiné de la Ville et Chateau de S.t Lio, avec l'attaque de 1705.
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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)
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Subject(s)
Zoutleeuw, Flanders, Belgium (50°49'59"N 05°06'13"E)
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