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Title(s)
The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.
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Published/Created
1690
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Physical Description
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio D no. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
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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 map is numbered "21" in black ink, "vi.21" in graphite.
Mounted on cloth.
Title from caption.
Skelton, R. "The Royal map collections of England." In Imago mundi, vol. 13 (1956), p. 181-183
Wallis, H. "The Royal map collections of England." In Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, vol. XXVIII (1980), p. 466-467 -
Subject Terms
Fortification -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Defenses. | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603–1714. | Guernsey.
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