Plan of Gibraltar, 1781 (Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory) 36°08'00"N 05°21'00"W

William Faden (1 July 1749-21 March 1836) (publisher) [top right, below text and scale bar:] LONDON, / Engraved and published by W.^m FADEN, Charing Cross, March 25.^th 1782.

John Drinkwater Bethune (1762-1844) (cartographer) [top right, at end of dedication:] By John Drinkwater L.^t in the 72^d. Regiment of Foot, or Royal M. Volunteers.

George Augustus Elliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1717-90) (dedicatee)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, a ‘4’ suspending the letters L V G below; countermark: IV

Condition: one fold line; small piece missing from centre of left edge; offsetting. Verso: induced discolouration; ink smudges

59.2 x 44.5 cm (neatline)

59.6 x 44.3 cm (image)

62.2 x 47.7 cm (platemark)

63.1 x 48.4 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

A PLAN OF THE ATTACK, MADE Nov.^ber 27.^th 1781. BY A DETACHMENT / COMMANDED by BRIGADIER-GENERAL ROSS, / FROM THE GARRISON OF GIBRALTAR, on the ENEMY’S WORKS erected before that FORTRESS. [top right]

Dedication:

[top right, below title:] Humbly Inscribed / TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE AUGUSTUS ELLIOTT, / GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR &c.&c. / By John Drinkwater L.t in the 72d. Reg.t of Foot, or Royal M. Volunteers.

Additional text:

[bottom left, in a cartouche representing a scroll nailed to a wall, with the depiction, above, of two sides of a medal, the obverse: 'GEORG III OPT PR DE HISPANIS' and reverse: 'G A ELLIOTT ET INVICTI MILITES'. Below the medal, a key, A-D, to the batteries:] REFERENCES. [and:] ORDRE DE BATAILLE OF THE DETACHMENT / FOR THE SORTIE.

Annotations:

George III heading: Gibraltar 27 Nov. 1781.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil, eighteenth-/nineteenth-century hand:] 27 Nov.^r 1781; [bottom right, right of centre, black pencil, erased and partly legible:] XVIII/[?]3-n.

George III catalouge entry:

Gibraltar A Plan of the Attack made 27.^th Nov.^r 1781, by a detachment commanded by Brigadier General Ross from the Garrison of Gibraltar on the Enemy’s Works erected before that Fortress: by Lieut. John Drinkwater, published by Faden, 1782.