A trace of Fricx's map of Brabant with details of the encampments of the Allied army around Brussels, 1745. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top.

A useful shortcut for the military mapmaker, faced with the necessity of making extensive surveys, was to take an existing printed map and trace off the major features such as roads, rivers and settlements. The tracing would then be taken into the field where simple observation techniques would be used to add to it more detailed information. This tracing was taken from Crepy's 1740s reprint of Fricx's 1706 map of Brabant (see RCIN 729061.a) and shows the wealth of additional detail which was added to the military map. Parts of this map were enlarged to produce the map of the Brussels canal (RCIN 729136).

Condition: two folds; several other fold lines; ink stains.