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Plan of Cherbourg from Naqueville to Fort Bretteville: R.D.147

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Plan of Cherbourg from Naqueville to Fort Bretteville

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

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Description

Points of compass indicated, upper centre. Key to places, lower left, scale in fathoms, lower right.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite
Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Drawn Area Height 188 mm Width 306 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Pen and ink with watercolour over graphite within drawn borders, on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Plan of Cherbourg from Naqueville [sic] to Fort Bretteville
  • Location: Upper left, above margins of drawing
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: numbers correspond to those on drawing

  • Text: No. 1 Projected Fort at Querqueville / 2 Querqueville Church / 3 Redoubt / 4 Amer / 5 Coqueville } villages / 6 Fort & Battery of St Ann / 7 Old Fort Humet / 8 Projected small fort / 9 Chantereynne Brook / 10 Fort L'Onglet / 12 Place where the Caissons are constructed / 13 Road from the Abbey / 14 Belle Croix / 15 Equerdreville [sic] / 16 Port of Cherbourg / 17 New Road from [?]Luerqueville / 18 New Place [erased] / 19 Road to Paris / 20 Cross & stone Quarry of Roule / 21 Powder Magazine / 22 Barracks at la Bontellere [?] / 23 Redoubt / 24 Bason }Tourlaville / 25 Fort de Oigovelle / 26 Fort Bretteville
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: R.D.147
Primary reference Number: 81791
Temporary Reitlinger Number: R.D.147
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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