Plan of Fort Edward

Eyre, William, active 1755

1755

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:7,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Edward (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Fort Edward
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States
• Washington (county)

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 26 x 23 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).

• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows title at lower right with date above and descriptive text beneath.
• Shows scale bar at lower right, "Scale of 600 Yards".
• Consider William Eyre as cartographer? Compare William Eyre's "PLAN of FORT EDWARD" (Maps K.Top.121.55.) and his "Sketch of Fort Edward, Novr. 30th, 1756" in pen and ink, in the Germain Papers of the Map Division at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan (Germain Papers. Map Division, Small Maps 1756.) and included in their online exhibition, "The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th-century America" http://www.clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/geometry_of_war/geometry6.php. - viewed 2013.
• Copy at Add Ms 15,535.1. Small red stamp of British Museum at lower right. Pasted in an album, verso not visible.