Detail View: Charting The Nation: [Plan of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, fought 13 November 1715] [copy] [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0043472
Shelfmark: 
MS.1649.Z.03/45b
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
[Plan of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, fought 13 November 1715] [copy]
Creator: 
Anonymous
Creator Role: 
Copyist
Creator: 
Anonymous
Creator Role: 
Mapmaker
Creator: 
Campbell, John, Duke of Argyll (b.1680, d.1743)
Creator Role: 
Associated Person
Creator: 
Erskine, John, Earl of Mar (b.1675, d.1732)
Creator Role: 
Associated Person
Date: 
1715
Description: 
This is one of three copies of a map of the battle of Sheriffmuir, fought just outside Dunblane, Perthshire, on 13 November 1715, between the government forces of John Campbell, the 2nd. Duke of Argyll, and the forces of James Francis Stuart, led by John Erskine, Earl of Mar, also known as 'Bobbing John' because of his tendency to switch sides, depending on which was to his best advantage. It was a fairly indecisive battle, commemorated in a ballad of the time with the words 'And we ran, and they ran, And they ran, and we ran, And we ran, and they ran awa, man.' The two other copies are in images 00003170 and 00003172.
Work Type: 
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement: 
35.7 x 58.2cm (1' 2 1/16" x 1' 10 15/16")
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Pen and ink
Subject Place: 
Dunblane
Subject Place: 
Perthshire
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Subject Event: 
Jacobite Rebellion 1719
Subject Category: 
Battlefields
Subject Category: 
Board of Ordnance
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): 
83909030
Repro Title: 
[Plan of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, fought 13 November 1715] [copy] [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number: 
0043472c.tif
Repro Old ID Number: 
00003171
Repro Capture Date: 
04/06/2001 16:37:00