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anonymous, France - Battle of Seneffe, in Holland's Brabant on the Border of Hainaut, won by the Troops - 1675 - 1724 - Poster Print
This engraved battle map depicts the field at Seneffe in the Brabant Hollandois, on the frontiers of Hainaut. The rectangular plate shows troop lines advancing across fields, clusters of villages, and wooded areas rendered in hatched patches. Regiments are distinguished by colour-coded lines, and a compass rose orients the terrain. Place names including Senef, Charleroi, Mons, Marche, Vellone and Femme are lettered across the plate, and a text key panel, headed RENVOIS, identifies the referenced positions. The impression is printed in ink grey on cream paper, with faint blue, muted green and faded red applied by hand.
The map records the battle fought on 11 August 1674, when the French army under the Prince de Condé met the allied forces commanded by William of Orange near the village of Seneffe. The engagement was one of the bloodiest of the Franco-Dutch War, and the title's assertion that the field was won by the French troops reflects the outcome the print was designed to celebrate. Battle plans of this kind allowed a distant public to follow the disposition of forces, the movement of regiments and the terrain on which victory was claimed, turning a costly action into a legible record of royal military success.
The creator of the plate is anonymous, and the print follows the conventions of French battle engraving of the later seventeenth century, in which topographic accuracy, legend keys and regimental markings were combined with propagandistic emphasis on French arms.