[Map showing Saint John's Harbour with Fort William and Fort Townshend]

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1773]

[producer not identified]

Scale not given

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Military art and science--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fortification--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Harbors--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• St. John's (N.L.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Canada
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• North and Central America
• Saint John's

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 55 x 93 cm

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• This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

• Date suggested as map shows Fort Townshend - built from 1773 (see http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=14342).
• Relief shown by shading and by hachuring.
• North is oriented to the bottom of the map.
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.II.2. A roll. Laid on linen. Manuscript annotation at lower right in black ink, "Handed over to Lieut. Monier Skinner R. Eng.r by his father in 1872" and initialled (by Monier Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower right. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.