PLAN of the Bastion at Fort George

Pfister, Francis, 1740-1777

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1759]

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Scale approximately 1:240

English

British Library

British Library Collection

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

• Lake George
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States
• Warren (county)

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 53 x 41 cm

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• Shows title at upper left with lettered key (A-G) below identifying features within the bastion.
• Shows scale bar at lower right, "scale for the Plan en Profil of 100th Feet".
• Shows a section through the bastion at upper centre (marked "A ... B" on the plan).
• Consider Francis Pfister as cartographer based on stylistic similarities? Compare Add Ms 57,712.5.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,712.8. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "8" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 2" in pencil at lower left and "A 30/41a" in pencil at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "17+". Manuscript annotation in pencil to verso shows "30 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/41A". Shows " Bastion of Fort George" in pencil to verso. Paper watermark shows a shield with a diagonal stripe, surmounted by a fleur de lys, with "LVG" beneath.