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Inverness, 1746
PLAN OF / INVERNESS. / with The Encampment / of The ROYAL ARMY / May 6.th 1746
c.1746Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on linen | Scale: 1:6,550 approx. | RCIN 730033
A finished plan showing the layout of Inverness in some detail; a comparison with Lewis Petit's survey of c.1716 on about the same scale (NLS: MS. 1647 Z.02/78a), John Romer's map of 1728 (NLS Acc. 10497 Wade. 58j), shows a good correlation of outline between the three. The last two plans were kept, in the eighteenth century, in the Board of Ordnance Drawing Room at Edinburgh or in the Tower of London and would have been available for copying. The style of draughting of this plan bears similarities with the work of William Eyres and Daniel Paterson, but there is no other evidence to identify the author.
The attribution to William Eyres is made on stylistic grounds.
Condition: no fold lines; brown staining and foxing to both sides. Verso: bottom left, below the linen backing, fragments of Cumberland's cipher label.
? William Eyres (d. 1764) (surveyor and draughtsman)
Watermmark: Indistinct, obscured by linen backing: [? fleur-de-lys with device below; countermark: IV]
Mark, stamped: 512
Condition: no fold lines; brown staining and foxing to both sides. Verso: bottom left, below the linen backing, fragments of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:6,550 approx. Scale bar: Scale of Yards [72 mm =] 500.
48.0 x 36.8 cm (image)
48.0 x 36.8 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN OF / INVERNESS. / with The Encampment / of The ROYAL ARMY / May 6.th 1746. [top left]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Inverness 6 May 1746;
Other annotations: (Recto) [top centre, black pencil:] North. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] VOL VIII 24.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampments A drawn Plan of Inverness with the Encampment of the Royal Army, 6.th May 1746. [The same entry appears under the heading Inverness.]
Subject(s)
Inverness (Highland Region, Scotland, UK) 57°28'44"N 04°13'26"E
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