Profiles and elevations relating to the plan of Fort William 1733 [copy] /
Romer, John Lambertus,1680-1754.
Massey, George,active 1746-1768.
Coombs, Richard,active 1755-1777.
cartographic

1755-1756.
This sheet is the sections and elevations of a missing 1733 plan of the fort at Fort William, by John Romer. The 1733 original of these sections, by John Romer, is also missing, and this copy was done by George Massey and Richard Coombs. Massey worked in the Tower of London Drawing Room between 1752 and 1756, and Coombs between 1755 and 1760, so this copy must have been done between 1755 and 1756. It shows those parts of the fort associated with the riverside, and has a sailing ship and two manned wherries depicted on the river.
At top of plan: title and year in pink shaded scroll, with "G. Massey F".
Below title scroll: scale statement " A Scale of 10 Feet to an Inch", with diagonal scale.
In bottom left hand corner: "(32)" written in ink.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "B: 4: F; 44", and below "G Massey".
In middle of plan: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Has watermarks.
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
Porter, Whitworth. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1889,
Marshall, Douglas W., "Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room", Imago Mundi,
Shows the fort and river at Fort William.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military