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COLLECTION NAME:
Charting The Nation
Record
Work Record ID:
0043206
Shelfmark:
MS.1647.Z.03/02c
Holding Institution:
National Library of Scotland
Title:
An Exact plan of the town and adjacent parts of Perth : as it was fortified and possessed by the rebells in Scotland, till they were driven thence by the victorious arms of King George, Anno 1715/6 [copy]
Creator:
Horneck, William (active 1714-1738)
Creator Role:
Surveyor
Date:
1715-1716
Description:
This is a copy of William Horneck's map at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/02a, which shows the fortifications of the armies of James Francis Stuart, who took the town of Perth early in the 1715 rising, and held it until the end. It also shows the seventeenth century Cromwellian citadel. Capt. Horneck, a Board of Ordnance engineer in Louis Petit's team, drew them after the town was recaptured by the government.
Work Type:
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement:
69 x 40.4cm (2' 3 3/16" x 1' 3 7/8")
Material:
Paper
Technique:
Hand coloured
Subject Place:
Perth
Subject Place:
Scotland
Subject Place:
St Johnston's Citadel
Subject Category:
Board of Ordnance
Subject Category:
Maps, Military
Reference:
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.14 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281).
Reference:
Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp. 17, 21, 54-55, 119, plate 4.
Reference:
Porter, Whitworth, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1889, v.1, pp.140, 147, 177.
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):
92169722
Repro Title:
An Exact plan of the town and adjacent parts of Perth : as it was fortified and possessed by the rebells in Scotland, till they were driven thence by the victorious arms of King George, Anno 1715/6 [copy] [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number:
0043206c.tif
Repro Old ID Number:
00002972
Repro Capture Date:
15/05/2001 12:09:00

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An Exact plan of the town and adjacent parts of Perth : as it was fortified and possessed by the rebells in Scotland, till they were driven thence by the victorious arms of King George, Anno 1715/6 [copy] [1 of 1]