A Plan of Pitts Fort at Pittsburgh. Oct.r 1759

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

1759

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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 ; 51 x 58 cm

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• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows title at upper left.
• Shows Fort Pitt before its completion in 1761.
• Shows lettered key (C-K) at upper right, within a surround.
• Shows scale bar at lower right, "Scale for the Plan" (100 feet to an inch).
• Shows a profile through the fort at lower left leftwith its own scale bar of 10 feet to one inch (scale approximately 1:120).
• Shows a decorative compass tose in the "Ohio or Allegeny River" at upper left orienting north to the upper left corner of the map.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,714.15. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "15" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 59" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/64" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "41". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/64". "A 59" is repeated in pencil. Evidence of old folds. Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield with "LVG" beneath. Countermark shows "JW".