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Index no. 0024
The battle plans use "Bate's 'Patent' Anaglyptograph" technique to show the relief of the ground. This is effective for the printed maps, less so for computer images, particularly when rendered at reduced resolution, as this can produce prominent moiré patterns. The pages that present these scans offer a wide range of scale factors, in the hope that users can find one that minimises the moiré effects.
The battle plans are all printed in black. The French, British (and allied), and Prussian forces are indicated by manual water-colour applied to the units, in blue, red, and green respectively. As the water colour has been applied to things that are already printed in black, it is not always easy to see. It is at is worst (in my copy) in plate 2, where even the original plate seen close up under a good light is not obviously coloured. It is at its best (in my copy) in plate 8, which is strongly coloured. In the hope of making the colours more readily visible, I have used electronic enhancement of the colours for plates 3 to 8. This has also, unfortunately, exaggerated the colours of the staining to the paper, and of spurious moiré colouring.
The bordered areas of the single plates measure as follows:
| Plate 1 | 540mm x 345mm |
| Plates 2 & 3 | 290mm x 220mm |
| Plates 4 & 5 | 425mm x 290mm |
| Plates 6, 7 & 8 | 465mm x 380mm |
| Plates 9 & 10 | 475mm x 305mm |
| Plate 11 | 380mm x 300mm |
Scan at 600 d.p.i.
Resize to 50% x 50% (600 d.p.i. images were too large for my software to handle)
Rectify
Straighten
Trim
For plates 3 to 8 only: use PaintShopPro to enhance the colour, with
Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Automatic Saturation Enhancement: More Colorful/Strong
— Images for sale were processed as above. Images shown on this site were further processed as follows:
Resize to 50% x 50%
Convert to Zoomify Date scanned: 2006-11-11