FORT BEDFORD

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1758–1763]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:1,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Bedford (Bedford, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Bedford
• Bedford (county)
• North and Central America
• Pennsylvania
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 34 x 46 cm

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• Date range suggested as fort built in 1758.
• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows scale bars at lower right.
• Shows profile through the fort at lower centre (scale approximately 1:240).
• Shows distinctive garden at lower left - compare with maps of Fort Bedford in the King's Topographical Collection and engraved maps of the fort published by Mary Ann Rocque.
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.NN.9. 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 William Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower centre. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.