1 map : pen and ink and gray wash ; sheet 45 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
Scale:
Scale not given
Notes:
Provenance: From the collection of George Legge, first Baron Dartmouth, 1648-1691 (see Sotheby's sale, March 8-10, 1948). Baron Dartmouth was Master-General of the Ordnance to Charles II and James II. His collection of maps was partly abstracted from Royal map collections, an arrangement described by Pepys in Bodleian Library MS Rawl. A. 171, 17r-20v. See also Skelton and Wallis. The chart is numbered "22" in black ink, "vi.22" in graphite.
Exhibition History:
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
Subject Terms:
Church of St Michel Du Valle (Vale, Guernsey) | Fortification -- Great Britain. | Nautical charts -- Channel Islands. | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603–1714. | Great Britain -- Defenses. | Guernsey -- Maps.