Sketch of the Isthmus to the NE of Crown Point

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1759]

[Producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:5,760

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Crown Point State Historic Site--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Crown Point State Historic Site--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Champlain, Lake--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Crown Point State Historic Site (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Champlain, Lake
• Crown Point
• Essex (county)
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 36 x 45 cm

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• Relief is shown by shading.
• Shows the title in a simple surround at upper right including the scale bar ("Scale of 600 yards") and a lettered key identifying "the old Fort", "the New one", "the Garden", "Grenadier Redoubt", "the Chimney" and "a Meadow".
• Shows only the forts on the west side of Lake Champlain, but the wider environs surrounding "the chimney" are shown on the west side of the lake.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,712.14. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "14" in pencil at upper right. Manuscript addition of "A 44" in pencil at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "8". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 29 SECTION 3". Blue label to verso shows "A 29/49". Paper watermark shows the royal arms surrounded by "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" with a "GR" countermark.