A Plan of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia 1760
Title
A Plan of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia 1760
Subject
Halifax Harbor
Description
Date attributed from title. Addition in ink at lower right showing "RAD 1820" suggests a subsequent owner? Compare also Add. Ms. 57.702.2 showing Halifax Harbour and also inscribed "RAD 1820" at lower right [this map also has a manuscript addition to verso in ink - "R A Davenport 1830"]. Could Richard Alfred Davenport (known as a writer and based in London) have been the cartographer of this map? Was he copying an earlier 1760 map? Stylistically, the map could have been produced in Halifax and later came into Davenport's possession.
Sounding depths are given.
Shows title in a decorative cartouche, surmounted by a boar's head - staked and bleeding, at lower right.
Shows "A Scale of three Miles" at upper centre within a decorative cartouche, also surmounted by a boar's head - staked and bleeding.
Shows a decorative compass rose within Halifax Harbour orienting north to the right of the map.
Shows the lighthouse at Sambro Head pictorially.
Compare with the Charles Morris survey of Halifax Harbour published by Thomas Jefferys (see Maps 1.Tab.44. for an example of the published map bound in an atlas within the King's Topographical Collection).
See Add. Ms. 57.702.2. for another map with the signature "RAD".
Copy at Add Ms 57,702.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXVII. Comprises 3 sheets, joined. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Green circular sticker to verso with "1". Additional white label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Additional manuscript addition in pencil to verso showing "A 28/32".
Sounding depths are given.
Shows title in a decorative cartouche, surmounted by a boar's head - staked and bleeding, at lower right.
Shows "A Scale of three Miles" at upper centre within a decorative cartouche, also surmounted by a boar's head - staked and bleeding.
Shows a decorative compass rose within Halifax Harbour orienting north to the right of the map.
Shows the lighthouse at Sambro Head pictorially.
Compare with the Charles Morris survey of Halifax Harbour published by Thomas Jefferys (see Maps 1.Tab.44. for an example of the published map bound in an atlas within the King's Topographical Collection).
See Add. Ms. 57.702.2. for another map with the signature "RAD".
Copy at Add Ms 57,702.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXVII. Comprises 3 sheets, joined. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Green circular sticker to verso with "1". Additional white label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 2". Additional manuscript addition in pencil to verso showing "A 28/32".
Creator
R. A. Davenport
Source
Leventhal Map Collection at the Boston Library
Date
1760
Contributor
Kip Hallagan
Identifier
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z018w
Files
Reference
R. A. Davenport, A Plan of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia 1760, 1760
Cite As
R. A. Davenport, “A Plan of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia 1760,” Mapping History, accessed May 18, 2024, http://maps.omeka.bucknell.edu/items/show/694.