Detail View: Charting The Nation: A Plan of the point of land at Arderseer [i.e. Ardersier] : with the design'd fort as trac'd thereon [copy] [2 of 2]
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Work Record ID:
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0043144
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Shelfmark:
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MS.1647.Z.02/57c
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Holding Institution:
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National Library of Scotland
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Title:
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A Plan of the point of land at Arderseer [i.e. Ardersier] : with the design'd fort as trac'd thereon [copy]
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Creator:
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Skinner, William (b.1700, d.1780)
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Creator Role:
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Surveyor
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Creator:
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Heath, Joseph (active 1750-1759)
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Creator Role:
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Draughtsman
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Date:
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1749
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Description:
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This and the plans at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/57a and MS.1647.Z.02/57b are all probably copies of a missing original, which appears to have been William Skinner's design for Fort George, Ardersier, before anything was actually built. The 'Board of Ordnance Register of Plans 1700-1800' only lists 6 copies and no original, dates them to 1749 and gives the draughtsman as 'Mr. Heath'. Joseph Heath was a draughtsman in the Tower of London Drawing Room from 1750 to 1759. The original Fort George was founded on a site at Inverness Castle in August 1727, but was almost entirely destroyed by mines laid by the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, in 1746, on their return north, just before Culloden. As a result of the destruction, the decision was taken not to attempt to repair that site, but to build a completely new Fort George. The initial proposals by Lewis Marcell (see plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/83a, and associated sections) and William Skinner were for the site of the old Cromwellian fort, known as Oliver's Fort (see Louis Petit's map at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/78a), but eventually Skinner's second proposals for the site at Ardersier Point were accepted.
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Work Type:
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Manuscript map/plan
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Measurement:
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88.1 x 42.7cm (2' 10 11/16" x 1' 4 13/16")
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Material:
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Paper
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Technique:
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Hand coloured
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Subject Place:
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Fort George
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Subject Place:
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Scotland
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Subject Category:
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Board of Ordnance
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Subject Category:
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Maps, Military
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Reference:
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Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.16 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281)
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Reference:
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'Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room',Imago Mundi, 32 (1980) p.37, no.26.
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Rights Statement:
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© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
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Repro File Type:
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Derivative JPEG
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Repro File Size (bytes):
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125028034
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Repro Notes:
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right half
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Repro Title:
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A Plan of the point of land at Arderseer [i.e. Ardersier] : with the design'd fort as trac'd thereon [copy] [2 of 2]
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Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
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7072 x 7072
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Repro ID Number:
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0043144c-0001.tif
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Repro Old ID Number:
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00002871
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Repro Capture Date:
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04/05/2001 14:43:00
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