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Complete Record for Item NS10 M20.2.24

Core Fields

Title:A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island [Manhattan], exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington . . .with the rebels lines to the southward . . .to which is added the attack made to the north[war]d by the Hessians
Item Type:Maps
Date:1777
Call Number NS10 M20.2.24

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Faden, William

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: "Published by Permission of the Rt. Honble. Commissioners of Trade and Plantations," the map depicts an action by the British "troops under the Command of the Rt. Honble. Earl Percy on the 16th Novr. 1776 . . ." See Stokes's The Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. I, pp. 355-356, Pl. 46, for discussion.
General_note: "Survey'd by Order of Lieut. Genl. Knyphausen."
Extent: 1 printed map
Dimensions: 55 x 38 cm.
Medium: black ink, with hand-coloring, on paper
Added_person: Sauthier, Claude Joseph

Geographic Location: [Linked to other records with the same Location]

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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