[Entrance to the Harbour of S.t Johns Newfoundland]

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1740?–1762?]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:1,200

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 ; 37 x 24 cm

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• Date suggested on stylistic grounds and on depiction of "Fort Charles or South Battery" (see http://www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/nf.html#stjohns).
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Title from annotation/title added by Monier Skinner in black ink.
• Shows "Fort Charles of South Battery" with five guns.
• Shows "Chain-rock Point" with 3 guns, but is inset with a "Design for 4 Guns on Chain-rock point".
• Shows scale bar at lower left, "Scale of 100 feet to an Inch".
• Shows "N.o 3" in ink at upper right.
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.II.6. A roll. Laid on linen. 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. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.