"Carte figurative du labeur et cense scituez au lieu de Boummelette Boumale et aux environs appartenant à messire Charles Bonaventure comte vander Noot [...]"

Drawing, pen, ink and watercolour on laid paper, 7 lvs folded into 14 ff., 37 x 54 cm (margins very frayed and occ. soiled).

Land survey of the Farm in the village of Bommelette, north to Bomal-sur-Gette (between Mont-Saint-André and Jodoigne), that belonged to Charles-Bonaventure van der Noot (1684-1761), chamberlain to Maria Theresia of Austria and grand bailiff of Brabant Wallon. Signed by two sworn land surveyors. The farmland is spread over 47 plots (17 to 23 missing), one of these shows the owner's holding, garden and plowed land. The owners of the surrounding land are listed, such as the Abbey of La Ramée. Nicely decorated with an illustrated title, the coat of arms of the van der Noot family and a map scale with crown and flowers.
Ref. Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle de sa Majeste Marie Thérèse Reine de Hongrie et de Bohême. Brussels, F. Claudinot, [1744], p. 6.