Münsterland – Plan Des Mouvements (..) ; J. van der Schley / F.W von Bauer – 1766

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Details

• Type: carthographic print
• Title: Plan Des Mouvements de l’Armée depuis le 26 jusqu’au 31 de May de meme depuis le 12. d’Aout jusqu’au Sept. 1758.
• Published: 1766
• Technique: copper engraving with contemporary coloring
• Carthographer: Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer
• Engraver: Jakob van der Schley
• Published by Pierre Gosse junior & Daniel Pinet in Den Haag
• Size print:  56.0 x 91.5 cm
• Size paper: 63.0 x 97.0 cm
• Verso: blank
• ID: 9420 D
• Source: Worldcat.org

Condition: B

Gut, dem Alter entsprechend. Mittelfalz wie ausgegeben, mit breiten Rändern. Scharfer Druck mit schöner Farbgebung. Altersbedingte Tonung und/oder vereinzelte kleinere Gebrauchsmängel. In der Mittelfalte unten gespalten, am Verso verstärkt, ohne Bildverlust. Einige Flecken auf der Rückseite.

Good, given age. Center fold as issued, with wide margins. Sharp print with beautiful coloring. Age-related toning and/or occasional minor usage defects. Split in the center fold at the bottom, reinforced on the reverse, without loss of image. Some stains on the back.

Jakob van der Schley (1715 – 1779)

Van der Schley was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. His main interests were engraving portraits and producing illustrations for “La Vie de Marianne” by Pierre Varlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763), published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747. He also engraved the frontispieces for a 15-volume edition of the complete works of Pierre de Brantôme (1540-1614), “Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantôme“, published in The Hague in 1740. Most of the plates in the Hague edition of Prévost’s “Histoire générale des voyages” are signed by van der Schley. He cooperated with Prosper Marchand who owned many of his prints.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731-1783)

Von Bauer was a Prussian Freihusarenfuhrer and Russian quartermaster general, lieutenant general, cartographer and architect.

The ports of St. Petersburg, Kronstadt and Riga were built according to his plans. In St. Petersburg, the shipyards, the city fortifications, the Bolshoi Theater, the Katerina Canal were fortified and the sewage system was built. In addition, the bank fortifications of the Fontanka and the Taitsky aqueduct that supplied Tsarskoe Selo. 

He drew some amazing maps and wrote his famous ‘Memoires historiques et geographiques sur la Valachie : avec un prospectus d’un atlas géographique & militaire de la derniere guerre entre la Russie & la Porte Ottomannete’, published in 1778.