Detail View: Charting The Nation: A Plan of Perth with the retrenchment made about it by the Pretenders engineers 1715/6 / [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0043210
Shelfmark: 
MS.1647.Z.03/1d
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
A Plan of Perth with the retrenchment made about it by the Pretenders engineers 1715/6 /
Creator: 
Petit, Louis (b.1665, d.1720)
Creator Role: 
Surveyor
Date: 
1715-1716
Description: 
This map of Perth shows the defensive fortifications thrown up by the armies of James Francis Edward Stuart, after their capture of the town early in the 1715 rising. It also show the seventeenth century Cromwellian citadel. The map was done by Louis Petit, after the failure of the rising, late in 1715, and the recapture of Perth by government forces. There is another map of these fortifications of the same date, by one of Petit's team, Capt. William Horneck, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/02a (copies at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.03/02b and MS.1647.Z.03/02c). As a result of the capture of the town, Petit proposed the building of a new fort, which was never taken up (plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/01a, copy at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/01b).
Work Type: 
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement: 
64.8 x 35.3cm (2' 1 1/2" x 1' 1 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: 
Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp.17, 21, 54-55, 119.
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): 
80666378
Repro Title: 
A Plan of Perth with the retrenchment made about it by the Pretenders engineers 1715/6 / [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number: 
0043210c.tif
Repro Old ID Number: 
00002976
Repro Capture Date: 
15/05/2001 14:18:00