| Cartographer | Thomas, John, the Elder |
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| Former owner | George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 |
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| Donor | George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 |
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| Date | 1738 |
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| Scale | Scale not given |
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| Language | English |
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| Location | British Library |
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| Collection (local) | British Library Collection |
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| Subjects | - Military art and science--Georgia--Saint Simons Island--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Saint Simons Island (Ga.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Fort Frederica (Ga.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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| Places | - Fort Frederica National Monument
- Glynn (county)
- North and Central America
- Saint Simons Island
- United States
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| Extent | 1 map on 2 sheets : joined and laid on linen; manuscript pen and ink, in black and red, over pencil ; 47 x 127 cm |
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| Terms and License | - No known copyright restrictions.
- This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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| Notes | - Production details from Cumming (third edition) and from a manuscript note in the British Museum catalogue (Maps C.21 bb.3) referencing a letter from Mrs Margaret Davis Cate, 29 July 1955.
- Unfinished pen drawings comprising designs for the engraving of the map with the proposed fortifications. Compare additional drawings - Maps K.Top.122.70.b. / Maps K.Top.122.70.c. / Maps K.Top.122.70.d.
- Compare the John Thomas, the Younger, manuscript map at the Fort Frederica National Monument. Digital copy online at http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/images/uploads/maps/stsimonsmap2.jpg - viewed April 2014 (Cumming, 246A).
- North is oriented to the left of the map.
- Shows a blank title cartouche at upper centre, decorated with war imagery.
- Shows a vignette depicting wicker production (?) at lower right.
- Shows forts (Fort King George in the north, Fort Frederica, and Delegal's Fort and Fort St Simons in the south?).
- Shows Frederica Town around Fort Frederica.
- Includes an inset plan at upper right with a blank scale bar showing Delegal's Fort and Fort St Simons (?). Names "Old Spanish Garden".
- Titled "A drawn Plan of St. Simon's and Jekyll Islands; with Plans and Profiles of the Battery, the Fort and the Redoubt. Four sheets; unfinished" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
- Titled "A plan of St. Simon's and Jekyll Islands, shewing the position of the forts, redoubts, &c., unfinished. It is on the same scale and size as the preceding" [on a scale of 1 3/5 inch to a mile: 3 f. x 1 f. 7 in. - see Maps K.Top.122.70.] in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.
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