A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns house - Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

Title:: A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns house : A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill ; A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston Neck
Title (alt.):: View of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill
View of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston neck
Creator:: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Date:: [1775?]
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Views
Location:: George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):: Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:: Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Places:: Massachusetts > Boston Harbor
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
Extent:: 3 views on 1 sheet ; each 12 x 21 cm., on sheet 85 x 63 cm.
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:: London : J.F.W. Des Barres
Scale:: Not drawn to scale
Language:: English
Catalog Record:: MVLA record
Notes:: Three views of Boston by J.F.W. Des Barres created prior to, or just after the beginning of the Revolutionary war; some showing military emplacements by British officers; from Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune.
Identifier:: 06_01_008503