[Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]

Title:: [Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]
Description:: Ink and watercolor manuscript panoramic view depicting the area around Boston during the siege after the Battle of Bunker Hill, as seen from Beacon Hill.
Artist:: Williams, Richard, active 1750-1776
Name on Item:: [Richard Williams].
Date:: 1775
Format:: Drawings/Illustrations
Manuscripts
Genre:: Views
Location:: George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):: Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:: Sieges--Massachusetts--Boston--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 view : ink and watercolor ; 17 x 47 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dz010v646
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

Scale:: Not drawn to scale
Language:: English
Referenced by:: MVLA record
Notes:: Part of a set of 5 ink and watercolor manuscript views depicting the area around Boston during the siege after the Battle of Bunker Hill, as seen from Beacon Hill.
Notes (exhibitions):: Exhibited: "We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015.
Exhibited: "We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015.
Identifier:: 06_01_011914

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