SKETCH OF THE RIVER S.T LAWRENCE From LAKE ONTARIO to MONTREAL by AN ONONDAGA INDIAN

Johnson, Guy, approximately 1740-1788

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

1759

GUY JOHNSON Pinxit 1759.

GUY JOHNSON Pinxit 1759,

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English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• North and Central America
• Ontario, Lake
• Saint Lawrence River

1 map : manuscript pen and ink over pencil ; 30 x 49 cm

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• Shows Native American nomenclature.
• Shows title in a decorative cartouche at lower left incorporating a "brick wall" design.
• Signed "GUY JOHNSON Pinxit 1759" within cartouche at lower right.
• Shows "REFERENCES" (a key) at lower right including "Indian Settlements", "French Forts", "Carrying places" , "Indian foot-paths" and "Rifts, or strong water".
• Shows a note at lower left "NB great part of Ontario Lake is not particularly described".
• Shows Fort Stanwix.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,707.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXII. Shows manuscript addition of "A 13" in pencil at lower right and "A 28/47" at lower left. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "22". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Blue label to the verso shows "A 28/47". Paper watermark shows a shield containing a diagonal stripe with "LVG" beneath.