Thank you for the information. It is difficult to establish which map
of Culloden you have seen at Chatsworth, as there are so many Culloden
maps, and as far as I am aware no comprehensive cartobibliography of
maps of
maps has been compiled. If anyone is aware of such a list, please let
me know.
The following are partial lists:
Volume 2 of The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850 (ed. D Moir) Royal
Scottish Geographical Society, 1983, p.138-148 gives a brief listing
of military maps, many of them covering Culloden.
Other sources are found in the appendix to the Scottish History
Society publication, Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from
his landing in Scotland, July 1745, to his departure in September 1746
/ compiled from The lyon in mourning [by Robert Forbes], supplemented
... from other ... sources, by Walter Biggar Blaikie. With a
map. Edinburgh, 1897. (There is also a 1975 reprint)
The National Library of Scotland has several maps, both printed and
manuscript, of Culloden and other battles associated with the Jacobite
Risings. Most give the Government point of view, but a manuscript
which arrived here in 1996 (almost 250 years to the day of the battle)
from
an American descendant of one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's aides, is
clearly from the Jacobite side.
We also have maps depicting Bonne Prince Charlie's route, including a
recent exciting purchase of the so-called <Roman map> published in
Rome,ca.1750, engraved by Pietro & Ferdinando Campana.
Diana Webster
Alan Magnus-Bennett wrote:
> A few years ago I attended the Society of Cartographers' summer
> school in Sheffield. One of the field trips was a visit to
> Chatsworth House where those of us who went were priveleged to view
> its private collection of maps.
>
> One particular map stood out like a sore thumb or perhaps a piece of
> gold to me. It was a studio finished 18thC map of the Battle of
> Culloden of 1746. I say studio finished because of of all the usual
> embelishments one finds on such period maps. However, certain script
> contained on the map made it obvious that the cartographer/surveyor
> was actually on the spot at the time of the battle or, at the very
> least, had an observor there making notes. The descriptive passages
> refer to the Scottish Highland Army of Bonnie Prince Charlie arriving
> in a kind of raggle taggle and dishevelled manner after making a
> forced march through the night to meet up with Cumberland's forces on
> Culloden Muir. Various other references to the battle itself make
> this map a more than interesting piece of cartography - more a slice
> of Scottish history in the making.
>
> Unfortunately, the map is unsigned and contains no evidence as to its
> origins. But that does not deter me in thinking that it is not an
> original. Chatsworth's map of Culloden is quite large and to my
> knowledge unique. If anyone has any further references to this I
> would be grateful or if there are other maps of Bonnie Prince
> Charlie's expeditions such as Preston or Derby I would love to hear
> about.
>
> As an aside I have a healthy interest in Scottish history and am a
> member of the English Civil War Society fighting with the Lowland
> Regiment of the Earl of Loudoun.
>
> many thanks.......
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magnus-Bennett
> Cartographer and Map Curator
> Geography Department
> School of Environmental Sciences and Land Management
> University College Worcester
> Worcestershire
> WR2 6AJ
> phone: 01905 855183
> email: [log in to unmask]
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