[Map of Fort Pitt]

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1761]

[Producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:1,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Pennsylvania--Fort Pitt--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Fort Pitt--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Pitt (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Allegheny (county)
• North and Central America
• Pennsylvania
• Pittsburg
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 43 x 52 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.
• Untitled and unsigned.
• Shows scale bar at lower right, "Scale for the Plan one Hundred Feet to one Inch".
• Shows a profile through the fort at left, perpendicular to map itself. The profile has a scale bar, "Scale for the Profil 15. Feet to on Inch" (scale approximately 1:180).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,714.14. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "14" in pencil at lower right. Shows "A 15" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/62" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "39". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/62". Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield with "LVG" beneath. Countermark shows "JW".