Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Emmet Collection. 8031

Found in

1. p1am Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754-1833. History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America. London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1787 (OCoLC)5732351

Description

1. 1 map : hand colored; 30 x 33 cm, on sheet 39 x 52 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 62.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative title

1. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US250.2.11

Subject

1. Southern States
2. United States
3. Siege of Yorktown (Virginia : 1781)
4. Maps
5. History
6. Southern States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns > Maps > Early works to 1800
7. Yorktown (Va.) > History > Siege, 1781 > Maps > Early works to 1800
8. Early works
9. Early maps
10. 1775-1783
11. Virginia > Yorktown
12. American Revolution (1775-1783)

Genre/Form

1. Early works.
2. History.
3. Maps.
4. Early maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 17-5482

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially and by hatchures.
2. Includes two "references" A, B.
3. Author attribution based on Collection of 14 plans of battles of the American Revolution by William Faden.

Indexed in (note)

1. Nebenzahl, K. Battle plans
2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Author

1. Faden, William, 1749-1836, creator, publisher.

Title

1. Plan of the siege of York Town in Virginia.

Publisher

1. London : [Faden], Publish'd March 1st, 1787.

Cartographic data

1. Scale approximately 1:18,000 (W 76°32ʹ--W 76°26ʹ/N 37°15ʹ--N 37°12ʹ).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. Nebenzahl, K. Battle plans 197
2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 10, page 845, column 1, no. 6

Local note

1. NYPL Map Div. has 2 copies of map; copy 1 [Map Div. 97-6231] is part of Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection. Copy 2 [Map Div. 17-5482] is part of Emmet Collection.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Chronological term

1. 1775-1783

Place of publication

1. Great Britain England London.

Added author

1. Emmet Collection. 8031

Found in:

1. p1am Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754-1833. History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America. London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1787 (OCoLC)5732351

Research call number

1. Map Div. 17-5482 [Filed under Yorktown, Va. 1781]
2. Map Div. 97-6231 (Map [5], facing p. [394]) [In LHS 3058]