PLAN of FORT NIAGARA With its Buildings & outworks

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PLAN of FORT NIAGARA With its Buildings & outworks
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Item Information

Title:
PLAN of FORT NIAGARA With its Buildings & outworks
Cartographer:
Demler, George
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Name on Item:
Laid down 2d May 1761 by Geo: Demler.
Date:
1761
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--New York (State)--Old Fort Niagara--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science----New York (State)--Old Fort Niagara--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Old Fort Niagara (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Niagara (county) > Old Fort Niagara
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 43 x 55 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).
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Publisher:
[Fort Niagara] : Laid down 2d May 1761 by Geo: Demler,
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:2,200
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999738
Notes:
Relief shown by shading and by hachuring.
Shows title at upper left with descriptive text beneath. Also shows George Demler's signature and the date.
Shows gardens.
Shows roads.
Shows scale bar at lower centre in feet.
Inset at lower left with a profile drawing through the fort including its own scale bar (scale approximately 1:120).
Copy at Add Ms 57,708.12. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIII. Shows manuscript addition of "12" in pencil at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. "A30/53B" in blue crayon to verso. Paper watermark shows a diagonal stripe within a shield, with "LVG" beneath.
Notes (date):
9999