Clue: March Borch’s men into Moll’s domain
Solution: Before posting this clue, an image was added to TenGrand_IE8’s Flickr page.
Titled “Take Tom, Dick and Harry North-West”, that image is of Herman Moll’s 17th Century map called “A new map of ye north parts of America, claimed by France”. The map includes part of Canada with Saskatchewan in the North-West. The image is tagged “cartographer, geographer, mapmaker” to indicate the importance of a map in solving the game. As described in previous clues, we
are calling the three soldiers in Borch’s painting Tom, Dick and Harry. By taking them to the North-West, you would be taking them to Saskatchewan, as featured in the map of Clue 5.
This clue, much like the new Flickr posting, is for those who hadn’t worked out from amongst the previous ten clues that the map from Clue 5 and the painting from Clue 9 need to be brought together. Herman Moll was a 17th century Dutch cartographer. Gerard ter Borch was a 17th century Dutch painter. More specifically, he painted “A Guard Room Interior, with a Soldier Blowing Smoke in
the Face of His Sleeping Companion, a Third Looking On” from Clue 9. Players are instructed to take the three soldiers from the Borch painting into Moll’s “domain”, ie. maps, but more specifically the map from Clue 5.