"Carte des biens situés à Houtain le Mont, Houtain le Val et ailleurs, qui ont appartenus à la famille de Dumont [...].

Drawing, pen, black ink and watercolour, on 2 sheets of parchment sewn together, c. 64 x 125 cm (folded, seam loosening, some sm. holes in folds, some soiling, edges frayed).

Detailed cadastral plan of the properties of the Dumont family in Houtain-le-Mont and Houtain-le-Val (Genappe), with the Houtain-le-Val Castle nicely depicted. The Dumont family owned "73 bonniers" (60 ha); this plan likely made for Pierre-J. Dumont and his wife Jeanne-Françoise Maghe. All lots numbered corresponding to the table at the right side. With a rudimentary inset map "Description demontrant [sic] la situation de la cense des fosses des villages de Houtain Amont et Houtain Aval [...]" covering a territory from Brussels and Halle to Genappe and Nivelles.
Ref. Braive, Gaston - Grand dictionnaire biographique de Genappe [...] du Moyen Âge à nos jours. in: Annales historiques des régions de Genappe, Nivelles et Wavre 1 (2014), p. 214.