Inverness-shire-Fort William-1748
CBTM:
21802
Map Date:
1748
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.50.37.1
Historic county:
Inverness-shire
Town name:
Fort William
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NN102740
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NN 1075
Map title:
'...Plan of the ground adjacent to Fort William...'
Comments on map:
On either side of the map is a long note on the 'unhappy situation' of Fort William. It evidently aspired to engraving (cf Exeter 21693), and is not a standard military product. 'Mary Burgh' is inconspicuous, and this map says little compared with, say, Exeter 21803-4.
Scale:
1:7200
Map-maker:
John Elphinstone, Engineer [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
71.5 x 52.3
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: Highly finished.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Mineral Well.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Rebel batteries and lines of fire.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.50.37.1.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Antiquities:
Inverlochy Castle.
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Cartouche: several cornucopias: title on slab; on left a putti touches the buttocks of a female looking in a mittoe; on right a male in Roman military costume brandishes a sword.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Right: plan of Fort William; bottom: south prospect of Inverlochy Castle ruins; Fort William from rebel bomb battery; Fort William from the watering place.
Relief:
slopes shown
Symbolic elements:
Putti, female, Roman soldier.
Dedicee of map:
Duke of Cumberland.
Stated measuerments:
soundings
Ordnance Survey's
1871
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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