The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Havana, 1762
A GENERAL PLAN of the HARBOUR and TOWN of HAVANA, with the FORTS / MORO and PUNTA, and the different attacks carried on by the BRITISH TROOPS, / Under the Command of the EARL of ALBEMARLE, /LIEUTENANT GENERAL, And Commander / in...
c.1762Pencil, ink and watercolour drawn on fifteen sheets of paper, then joined; laid down on five pieces of coarse linen, stitched together; edged with cerise silk ribbon; two pink linen ties to left edge [none missing]; four brass rings to top edge for hanging [none missing] | Scale: 1:4,800 approx. | RCIN 733045
A very detailed large-scale survey of the harbour, town and immediate surroundings of Havana showing the roads, settlements, vegetation and relief as well as the military features. Most of the settlements are not named. Other surveys were made by Patrick Mackellar (q.v.) and were sent back to London in Albemarle's dispatches; these were partly based on a Spanish map of 1730 (TNA MPG 637; see also MPG 636 (1) and (2)).
Additional text: [bottom left, a key, A-I, K-Y, to forts, prominent buildings, watering place for the army, sunken ships, boom, etc.; a key, a-i, k-y to the batteries, redoubts, etc., under the command of Major-General Keppel; a key, 1-21, to the encampments of the various regiments etc:] References to the PLAN.
Condition: nine fold lines; creased; very worn and torn along centre horizontal fold; surface dirt along right edge; some of this surface dirt has been erased at the beginning of the nineteenth century in order to write the old heading. Verso: brown discolouration; heavy surface dirt along right edge, consistent with the map having been rolled.
Whyte (active 1762) (draughtsman)
Bellew (active 1762) (draughtsman)
Matthew Dixon (active 1744-d.1793) (draughtsman) [bottom left, above scale bar:] Lieut.s Whyte 56th Regt [and] Bellew Royale Delint Under the Direction of Capt Mathew Dixon Chief Eng.r at the Havanah
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the monogram VDL below; countermark: IV
Condition: nine fold lines; creased; very worn and torn along centre horizontal fold; surface dirt along right edge; some of this surface dirt has been erased at the beginning of the nineteenth century in order to write the old heading. Verso: brown discolouration; heavy surface dirt along right edge, consistent with the map having been rolled
Scale: 1:4,800 approx. Scale bars: ½ Mile [168 mm =]. 2000 Feet [127 mm =]. 900 Yards [169 mm =].
152.0 x 363.8 cm (image and neatline)
153.7 x 364.1 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
A GENERAL PLAN of the HARBOUR and TOWN of HAVANA, with the FORTS / MORO and PUNTA, and the different attacks carried on by the BRITISH TROOPS, / Under the Command of the EARL of ALBEMARLE, /LIEUTENANT GENERAL, And Commander / in Chief &. &. &. [top centre, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[bottom left, a key, A-I, K-Y, to forts, prominent buildings, watering place for the army, sunken ships, boom, etc.; a key, a-i, k-y to the batteries, redoubts, etc., under the command of Major-General Keppel; a key, 1-21, to the encampments of the various regiments etc:] References to the PLAN.
Annotations:
George III heading [black pencil:] Havana 1762 Military.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, ink, obscured by canvas:] Havana; [top, left of centre, red felt tip pen on 1980s red-printed Royal Library label:] XIII 45 Havana.
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
[Title, etc., ink:] A drawn general Plan of the Harbour and Town of Havana; with the Forts Moro and Punta, and / the different Attacks carried on by the British Troops, under the command of the Earl of Albemarle: / drawn under the direction of Capt. Matthew Dixon, Chief Eng.r by Lieut.ts White & Bellew. 15 sheets / A Roll ... [black pencil:] 1 Table 2d / [black pencil:] to be 733045.c / [George III heading, red ink:] Havana 7 June - 12 Aug. 1762 [black pencil, in a modern hand:] Big, sep. seq.
Watermark: fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the monogram B&W below.
Size: 47.1 x 32.8 cm (sheet).George III catalogue entry:
Havana A drawn general Plan of the Harbour and Town of Havana, with the Forts Moro and Punta, and the different Attacks carried on by the British Troops under the command of the Earl of Albemarle in 1762: drawn under the direction of Captain Matthew Dixon chief Eng.r by Lieut.s White and Bellew. 15 sheets.
Subject(s)
Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba (23°07'58"N 82°22'58"W)
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