PLAN ELEVATION SECTION and PROFILE of ye ROYAL BLOCKHOUSE OPPOSITE FORT EDWARD

Title:: PLAN ELEVATION SECTION and PROFILE of ye ROYAL BLOCKHOUSE OPPOSITE FORT EDWARD
Cartographer:: Sowers, Thomas
Former owner:: Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Name on Item:: Tho.s Sowers Eng.r 1759.
Date:: 1759
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: British Library
Collection (local):: British Library Collection
Subjects:: Fortification--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Edward (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:: New York > Washington (county) > Fort Edward
Extent:: 1 map : manuscript pen and ink with wash ; 55 x 40 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/hx11z150v
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).

Publisher:: [Place of production not identified] : Tho.s Sowers Eng.r,
Scale:: Scale approximately 1:240
Language:: English
Referenced by:: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999743
Notes:: Shows title at upper left in a decoratice cartouche incorporating a lettered key (A-H).
Shows scale bar at lower left, "Scale of 20 Feet to an Inch".
Compare Add Ms 57,711.9. - also showing the Blockhouse and by Thomas Sowers (although unsigned and undated) but lacking the elaborate title cartouche of this map.
Copy at Add Ms 57,711.10. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVI. Shows manuscript addition of "10" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 78" in pencil at lower left and "A 28/64" at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "8a". Manuscript annotation in pencil shows "Drawer 28 Section 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/64".
Notes (date):: 9999

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