PLAN OF THE ENTRANCE OF ST IOHN'S HARBOUR NEWFOUNDLAND Shewing the additional Work's erecting for its defence

Skinner, Thomas, 1759-1818

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1760–1815]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:2,700

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 ; 47 x 61 cm

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• Date range from depiction and naming of "Wallace's Battery" (built 1800-1815 - see http://www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/nf.html#stjohns) for latter date. However, map looks stylistically earlier.
• Relief shown by shading and by hachuring.
• Shows title and lettered key (A-D) in surround at lower right.
• shows scale bar at lower centre, "Scale of Feet 225 to an Inch".
• Shows "Amherst's Tower", "Frederick's Battery", "Chain Rock Battery". "Wallace's Battery" and the blockhouse on Signal Hill are referred to in the key as "erecting" (in progress).
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.II.5. A roll. Manuscript annotation at lower centre 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. Annotation in pencil in margin at lower right, "Thomas Skinner" (?). Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.