The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Soest, 1758
PLAN / De l’Affaire de SOEST, contenant les Mouvements que l’Armée fit depuis le 17 Jusqu’au 25 d’Octobre
1766Etching and engraving; printed from two copperplates on two sheets of paper, joined; one flap printed from a separate copperplate on a separate sheet of paper and pasted to the base map; hand coloured | Scale: 1:46,400 approx. | RCIN 732001.s
No pencil folio number [No. 19]. Extends from Hamm (51°40'49"N 07°49'15"E) in the north-west to Lippstadt (51°40'25"N 08°20'41"E) in the north-east, a distance of about twenty miles, and as far south as Meiningsen (51°32'12"N 08°03'33"E), about 2½ miles south of Soest. A paper flap is pasted to the base map, giving different troop positions to the north-east of Soest. The pasting position for the flap is indicated by pecked lines on the base map.
Additional text: [top centre, below title, in title cartouche, a key to the actions and movements of the troops, A-I, K-T, V-Z, aa, bb.]
Condition: no fold lines; crisp image from what is probably an early pull from the copperplates; guarded into volume.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731-83) (compiler and draughtsman) [top centre, below title and text, in title cartouche:] F.W. Bawr.
Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver)
Pierre Gosse Jr (1718-94) (publisher)
Daniel Pinet (active 1762-86) (publisher) [bottom centre, outside border:] Grave Sous la Direction de J.V. Schley, et Publié à La Haye aux Depens de PIERRE GOSSE junior & DANIEL PINET, 1766.
Watermark: None visible
Condition: no fold lines; crisp image from what is probably an early pull from the copperplates; guarded into volume
Scale: 1:46,400 approx. Scale bar: Echelle d’un Heure de Chemin 6000 Pass [105 mm =].
53.2 x 108.5 cm (neatline)
55.7 x 109.0 cm (image)
55.4 x 111.1 cm (platemark)
64.7 x 116.9 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN / De l’Affaire de SOEST, contenant les Mouvements que l’Armée fit depuis le 17 Jusqu’au 25 d’Octobre. [top centre, in rococo cartouche]
Additional text:
[top centre, below title, in title cartouche, a key to the actions and movements of the troops, A-I, K-T, V-Z, aa, bb.]
Annotations:
None
George III catalogue entry:
Germany Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne entre la Grande Britagne et la France depuis l’an 1757 jusqu’a l’an 1762: dessiné par le Colonel F.W. de Bawr: chez Gosse et Pinet, 1769. 7 feuilles; avec 18 Plans des Sieges et Batailles donnés depuis 1757 jusqu’a 1762. Fol.
Subject(s)
Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°34'32"N 08°06'22"E)
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