Detail View: Charting The Nation: A Prospect of that part of the land and sea adjacent to ye barrack to be built in Glen Elg [1720] [copy] [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0043229
Shelfmark: 
MS.1647.Z.03/07b
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
A Prospect of that part of the land and sea adjacent to ye barrack to be built in Glen Elg [1720] [copy]
Creator: 
Bastide, John Henri (active 1718-1759)
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator: 
Test, William (active 1759-1814)
Creator Role: 
Draughtsman
Date: 
1762
Description: 
This sheet is an ms. copy of John Henri Bastide's 1720 'prospect' at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/07a, without the inset map. It shows the area around the Bernera Barracks, at Glen Elg, in 1719, when they were first being built. It was executed by William Test, in 1762, in the Tower of London Drawing Room. An unsigned and undated copy of this is at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/07c.
Work Type: 
View
Measurement: 
49.5 x 32.2cm (1' 7 1/2" x 1' 11/16")
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Hand coloured
Subject Place: 
Bernera Barracks
Subject Place: 
Glen Elg
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Subject Category: 
Board of Ordnance
Subject Category: 
Views
Reference: 
Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp.60-65, plate 6.
Reference: 
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.15 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281).
Reference: 
Porter, Whitworth, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1889, v.1, pp.156-88 passim.
Reference: 
'Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room',Imago Mundi, 32 (1980), p.37, no.56.
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): 
108356118
Repro Title: 
A Prospect of that part of the land and sea adjacent to ye barrack to be built in Glen Elg [1720] [copy] [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number: 
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Repro Old ID Number: 
00002991
Repro Capture Date: 
16/05/2001 11:39:00