Detail View: Charting The Nation: A Plan of Fort Augustus in its present state with a designd fossee & cover'd way 1747 [copy] [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0043156
Shelfmark: 
MS.1647.Z.02/65b
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
A Plan of Fort Augustus in its present state with a designd fossee & cover'd way 1747 [copy]
Creator: 
Skinner, William (b.1700, d.1780)
Creator Role: 
Surveyor
Creator: 
Miller, James (active 1773-1777)
Creator Role: 
Associated Person
Date: 
1776
Description: 
This is a copy of the plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65a, which was done by William Skinner, in 1747. It has three sections. The top part contains a plan of Fort Augustus, showing the extent of the damage after the attack by the army of Charles Edward Stuart, in 1746, the middle part contains a profile of a proposed defensive fosse, and the bottom part contains the title and 'Explanation. There is another copy, also done in the Tower of London Drawing Room, in 1776, by James Miller, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65c. The original assessment was followed by a plan at MS.1647.Z.02/66a, which has copies at MS.1647.Z.02/66b and MS.1647.Z.02/66c, and a sheet of sections at MS.1647.Z.02/70a, which has a copy at MS.1647.Z.02/70b, which detail his repairs.
Work Type: 
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement: 
43.9 x 69.1cm (1' 5 5/16" x 2' 3 3/16")
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Hand coloured
Subject Place: 
Fort Augustus
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Subject Category: 
Board of Ordnance
Subject Category: 
Maps, Military
Reference: 
National Library of Scotland, War Office Inventory, Maps Deposited in May 1934, p.7 (Map Library, National Library of Scotland).
Reference: 
'Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room',Imago Mundi, v. 32, 1980, p.38, no.97.
Rights Statement: 
© 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 Size (bytes): 
95573078
Repro Title: 
A Plan of Fort Augustus in its present state with a designd fossee & cover'd way 1747 [copy] [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number: 
0043156c.tif
Repro Old ID Number: 
00002901
Repro Capture Date: 
09/05/2001 14:24:00