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Add MS 64809 A
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- 040-002033197
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- 032-002033196
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000153.0x000380
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- Add MS 64809 A
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A. Pierre Joseph de Bourcet: 'Carte de la vallée de Pragelas . . . Levée sur les lieus [sic] par Bourcet ingenieur ordinaire du Roy. 1731'. Scale [1:74090]. 'Deux lieues et demy, reduites à une heure de chemin par lieue' (= 15cm.) Apparently autograph. French. Shows routes to neighbouring valleys from the Pragelato and particularly from the Sardinian fort of Fenestrelles, which had been ceded by France in 1713. The mountains are shown in profile, the valley itself in plan. The plan is endorsed in various 18th-century French hands 'Carte de la Vallée de Pragelas Levée par M. de Bourcet en 1731'. 'No. 3' and 'Elle était annexée à une lettre de M. de la Blottière de 6 8bre 1716', perhaps referring to a letter containing more detailed information with which the plan may later have been filed (and see L'Image de la Montagne, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1980, p. 22 no. 380). For other maps of the Pragelato see Add. 15325, f. 1; 21117, ff. 75v-77.
Ink, wash and watercolour on paper. Plan measures 270 x 425mm. or, with explanatory text, 270 x 600mm. on sheet 390 x 685mm.
Maps and Plans: Valley of Pragelato, Italy: Louis XV of France: Military Tactics: Lieutenant-General Pierre Joseph de Bourcet, French military engineer: Plan of the Pragelato by Lt.-Gen. Pierre Joseph de Bourcet: 1731: Fr.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002033196
040-002033197 - Is part of:
- Add MS 64809 A-B : FRENCH MILITARY MAPPING; 1731, 1734
Add MS 64809 A : A. Pierre Joseph de Bourcet: 'Carte de la vallée de Pragelas . . . Levée sur les lieus [sic] par Bourcet ingenieur ordinaire du… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002033196[0001]/040-002033197
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- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1731
- End Date:
- 1731
- Date Range:
- 1731
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- CE
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- Names:
- Bourcet, Pierre Joseph de, Lieutenant-General French military engineer
Louis XV, of France, 1710-1774 - Places:
- Valley of Pragelato, Italy