War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Dunkirk, 1742
PLAN DU RETRANCHEMENT ET CAMPEMENT DE TROUPES FRANCOISES AUX ENVIRON DE LA VILLE DE DUNKERQUE OU SE TROUVE / MARQUE LES ECLUSES QUI DONNE L'EAU DANS LE FOSSE DU RETRANCHEMENT, AINSI QUE LE DIT OUVRAGE A ETTÉ FAIT Ao=M.DCC.XLII
1742 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:15,600 approx. | RCIN 728059
Conditions: four fold lines. Verso: surface dirt on outer panel of fold; bottom, right of centre: staining from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label; bottom, small repair with strip of paper; further repair with paper along top edge, possibly made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily
Conditions: four fold lines. Verso: surface dirt on outer panel of fold; bottom, right of centre: staining from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label; bottom, small repair with strip of paper; further repair with paper along top edge, possibly made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries.
Scale: not stated. 1:15,600 approx.
35.7 x 50.5 cm (neatline)
37.3 x 50.6 cm (image)
38.1 x 51.7 cm (platemark)
38.7 x 57.3 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN DU RETRANCHEMENT ET CAMPEMENT DE TROUPES FRANCOISES AUX ENVIRON DE LA VILLE DE DUNKERQUE OU SE TROUVE / MARQUE LES ECLUSES QUI DONNE L'EAU DANS LE FOSSE DU RETRANCHEMENT, AINSI QUE LE DIT OUVRAGE A ETTÉ FAIT Ao=M.DCC.XLII. [top, outside border]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Dunkirk in 1742.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, ink, in Schultz's hand?:] Netherlands 6.b [crossed out in black pencil]; [top right, black pencil:] 6.; [bottom right, ink:] D.a [the ‘a’ is scraped out]; [bottom right, black pencil:] 31 [crossed out in black pencil]; [bottom right, ink, mostly erased:] [6.b].; [bottom, left of centre, black pencil:] 6; [centre right, red pencil:] 6; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil:] 7/41.
George III catalogue entry:
Dunkirk Plan du Retranchement et Campement des Troupes Françoises aux Environs de Dunkerque, avec les Ecluses qui donnent l'eau dans le fossé du Retanchement, faites en 1742. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Dunkirk, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (51°03'0"N 02°22'00"E)
Page revisions
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