[Map showing the location of Fort de la Presentation]

Labrosse, Paul, 1697-1769

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1750–1760]

PAUL LABROSSE FECIT.

PAUL LABROSSE FECIT,

Scale approximately 1:5,850

French

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Saint Lawrence River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort de La Présentation--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• New York
• North and Central America
• Ogdensburg
• Saint Lawrence (county)
• Saint Lawrence River
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 36 x 67 cm

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• Date from comparison with other maps by Paul Labrosse - see Add Ms 57,704.11. and Add Ms 57,706.3.
• Relief is shown pictorially.
• Oriented with north to the bottom of the map, indicated by a decorative compass rose.
• Shows "RIVER KATARAKOUI" for the Saint Lawrence River (an error?).
• Shows an "Echelle de 16 arpents" at centre left.
• The map is annotated with textual notes (in French) describing the terrain.
• Signed "PAUL LABROSSE FECIT AT LOWER RIGHT".
• Shows an inset view of Fort de la Présentation at upper right titled "Elevations et vué du fort de la Presentation de La Pointe marqué C au fort A" (where A marks the fort on the larger map and C is the point from which the elevation was drawn). The inset has its own scale, "Eschelle de 15 Toises pour L'Elevations seulement"(scale approximately 1:200).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,707.4. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXII. Shows manuscript addition of "4" in pencil at lower right, a small "19" and "4" at upper right, and "A 28/42" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "17". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Signed in ink to verso "Labrosse".