[Charles Town Neck Exhibiting the Plan of the Town and all the Fortifications in December 1781]
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Item Information
- Title:
- [Charles Town Neck Exhibiting the Plan of the Town and all the Fortifications in December 1781]
- Former owner:
- Frazer, Sir Augustus Simon, 1776-1835
- Former owner:
- Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
- Date:
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[1781]
- 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--South Carolina--Charleston--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Charleston (S.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Charleston (county)Charleston
- Extent:
- 1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 55 x 76 cm
- Terms of Use:
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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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[Charleston?] :
[producer not identified]
- Scale:
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Scale approximately 1:8,000
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999748
- Notes:
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Date and title from verso
Relief shown by shading
Shows fortifications including on "Hampstead Hill", and new bastions and new hornwork are shown outside the city.
Shows scale bar at right in yards
Compare Add Ms 57,715.18. for a map of the wider harbor environs by the same hand.
Copy at Add Ms 27,715.19. Manuscript "19" added in pencil at upper right. Manuscript annotation in black ink at upper right, "Presented by Colonel Sir Augustus Frazer K.C.B. R.A.". Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "11". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/34", and annotation repeated in pencil. White label to verso showing "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Titles to verso in ink. Additional manuscript annotations in pencil repeat "19" and the pressmark "MS 57715". Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield. Countermark showns "J. WHATMAN".
- Notes (date):
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9999
This date is inferred.
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