Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Beckman, Martin, -1702

Title:

The groundplott of Bouche de Vale on the N.W. side of Guarnsey / M. Beckman.

Published / Created:

1690

Physical Description:

1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 111 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio D no. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlases (manuscript)

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. | Guernsey. | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603–1714. | Great Britain -- Defenses.

Form/Genre:

Maps -- England -- Guernsey. | Ink drawings. | Watercolors.

Contributors:

Dartmouth, George Legge, Baron, 1648–1691, former owner.