PART OF THE HARBOUR of ST IOHNS

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1767]

[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 ; 43 x 60 cm, on sheet 54 x 75cm

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• Date range on stylistic grounds and because a battery (?) is shown, although not named, in "Quiddy Viddy Gutt" and dates from 1767 - see http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3061.
• Relief shown by hachuring.
• Sounding depths are given.
• Shows Fort William.
• Shows proposed defences on Signal Hill.
• Shows title at lower left.
• Shows a lettered key/list of references in lower margin.
• Shows sectional view across The Narrows in left margin.
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.II.4. A roll. Laid on linen. Manuscript annotation at lower left in black ink, "Handed over to Lieut. Monier Skinner R. Eng.r by his father in 1872" and initialled (by William Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower right. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.