"Carte particuliere de la situation du camp del alliez pres de Louvain au mois de juin et juillet 1693."

Manuscript, 34 x 45 cm, drawn in ink and pencil, coloured (sl. spotted).

Under passe-partout and frame.

Manuscript map of the allied encampment near Leuven in June and July 1693, shortly before the Battle of Landen (July 29, 1693) during the Nine Years' War (1688–97). Early work of mapmaker G.P. Verboom (1665/7-1744) who was the most notable of Spain's Flemish engineering corps and eventually became General Engineer to the Spanish Crown. He followed his father Cornelius as Captain and Engineer to the Spanish army in the Netherlands in the year before the survey was made. Later, he was charged with the defence of Antwerp in 1695, he was emprisoned in Arras in 1708 and, after his release, he travelled to Spain to oversee the newly-constituted Spanish engineering corps and to inspect the border forces. In the Battle of Almenar, he was wounded and afterwards transported to Barcelona. In 1721, he drew up an ambitious project for the Alicante fortifications, resulting in a canal being opened in 1772. On his death in Barcelona, he left an extensive library of 290 vol.
Ref. M. Galland Seguela, Les ingénieurs militaires espagnols de 1710 à 1803: étude prosopographique ..., 29-30. - J.M. Muñoz Corbalán, La Biblioteca del Ingeniero General Jorge Próspero Verboom.