PLAN of FORT LIGONIER with part of the RETRENCHMENT
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Item Information
- Title:
- PLAN of FORT LIGONIER with part of the RETRENCHMENT
- Former owner:
- Skinner, William, 1700-1780
- Former owner:
- Skinner, Monier
- Date:
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[1758]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
- British Library
- Collection (local):
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British Library Collection
- Subjects:
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Fortification--Pennsylvania--Fort Ligonier--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Fort Ligonier--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Ligonier (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Westmoreland (county)Ligonier
- Extent:
- 1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 48 x 65
- 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:
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[Place of production not identified] :
[producer not identified]
- Scale:
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Scale approximately 1:3,600
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002027390
- Notes:
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Date attributed based on location shown (Fort Ligonier was constructed in 1758).
Relief shown by shading.
Shows title at upper left with scale bar beneath (30 feet to an inch).
Shows lettered key at centre left.
Shows section through the fort at upper centre (scale approximately 1:60).
Copy at Add Ms 33,231.NN.7. A roll - laid on linen. Manuscript annotation at lower left in black ink, "Handed over to Lieut. Monier Skinner R. Eng.r by his father in 1872" and initialled (by William Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower left. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.
- Notes (date):
-
9999
This date is inferred.
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