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 Title:   (As in the S.H.A.T. Catalogue)
Carte de la Vallée de l'Adige depuis Meran jusqu'à Verone, relative au mémoire No.12. et carte de Borghetto à l'embouchure. 

Title:   (As on the map)
Armée des Grison. An 9e [1800-1801]. Carte de la vallée de l'Adige depuis Meran jusqu'à Vérone (Relative au mémoire No. 12).

Au quartier général à Trente le 5 Germinal an 9e[26 March 1801] le commandant en chef par intérim du Génie à l'Armée Morlaincourt.

Cartographer:   Commandant en Chef du Genie Morlaincourt: Armée des Grisons

Archive:   S.H.A.T.

Catalogue Number:   L.II.16

Scale:   
   Catalogue - 1:80,000
   Calculated - 1:84,965 - Based on the
   distance between Merano and Bozano.
   Calculated - 1:74,749 - Based on the
   scale on the map (in toises).
   Calculated - 1:97,248 - Based on the
   distance between Trento and Rovereto.

Dimensions:   63cm x 168cm

Format:   Manuscript

Execution Date:   1801
View Map At:
750x1983 pixels
2000x4609 pixels
3665x5338 pixels (top half)
3654x5126 pixels (bottom half)

Text on Map:   "Echelle d' une ligne pour cent toises" 10,200 toises = 246.5 (sic)

Description/Comments: This map was probably made under the direction of Rousseau, Director of the Topographic office of the Armée des Grisons. Grisons is a region in Switzerland. It would have been made with very little support, material, instrumental or indeed in terms of previously made maps. The point of this mapping was to gain a strong sense of the territory from Venice to Brescia to Switzerland because the Alps between Italy and Switzerland were deemed strategically very important and because it was important to map the territory well, in anticipation of losing it again to the Austrians.

This is a finished manuscript map with relief in brown watercolour wash, water in blue, towns are geometric red figures or red dots, roads are parallel lines (unfilled). Made from 3 pieces of paper glued together.  Many of the military sketch maps to be found in the archives focus on the course and immediate environs of rivers.