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COLLECTION NAME:
Charting The Nation
Record
Work Record ID:
0043161
Shelfmark:
MS.1647.Z.02/64c
Holding Institution:
National Library of Scotland
Title:
Proposed additional works at Fort Augustus [1746] [copy] : profile of the fort through the courtine; profile of the ravelin; profile of the covered way and glacies;
Creator:
Marcell, Lewis (active 1746)
Creator Role:
Surveyor
Creator:
Read, William (active 1794-1799)
Creator Role:
Draughtsman
Date:
1795
Description:
This sheet is a copy of the sheet of sections at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/64b. The pencil note '[M. Read 1795]' on the bottom of the sheet might probably indicates that it was copied in 1795, in which case the copyist would have been William Read, who was a draughtsman in the Tower of London from 1794 to 1795. The original sheet of sections, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/64b, accompanies the plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/64a, another sheet of sections at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/64d, and two maunscript pages of Lewis Marcell's estimates for the work at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/64e, all of which were received by the Board of Ordnance, in London, in 1746.
Work Type:
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement:
78 x 27.6cm (2' 6 11/16" x 10 7/8")
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, 32 (1980) p.40, no.200.
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
Repro File Type:
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes):
51815750
Repro Title:
Proposed additional works at Fort Augustus [1746] [copy] : profile of the fort through the courtine; profile of the ravelin; profile of the covered way and glacies; [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number:
0043161c.tif
Repro Old ID Number:
00002905
Repro Capture Date:
09/05/2001 15:28:00

Proposed additional works at Fort Augustus [1746] [copy] : profile of the fort through the...

Proposed additional works at Fort Augustus [1746] [copy] : profile of the fort through the courtine; profile of the ravelin; profile of the covered way and glacies; [1 of 1]