PLAN of MOBILE

Pittman, Philip, active 1760-1770

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

Brasier, William

1763

Survey'd by P.Pittman.

Scale approximately 1:4,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Mobile (Ala.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Charlotte (Mobile, Ala.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Alabama
• Mobile
• Mobile (county)
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 29 x 44 cm

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• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows a "Scale of Feet" at lower left.
• North is oriented to the right of the map oriented by a compass rose.
• Shows title at upper left with a numbered key (1-7) identifying buildings of note, including "Fort Charlotte" (known as Fort Conde under French rule and Fort Carlotta under Spanish rule).
• Compare "Plan of Mobile. Surveyed by Ph. Pittman. Copy by W. Brasier. MS. 400 feet to 1 inch" held by The National Archives, Kew (CO 700/FLORIDA25).
• Titled "A drawn Plan of Mobile, surveyed by P. Pitman; copied by W. Brasier" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled 'A colored "Plan of Mobile, surveyed by P. Pitman;" shewing Fort Charlotte; copied by W. Brasier, on a scale of 400 feet to an inch: 1 f. 6 in. x 11 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.