A south view of Crown Point – Historic Photograph Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of A south view of Crown Point. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A south view of Crown Point
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Few places on the Lake Champlain corridor saw more military activity in the 1750s than Crown Point, the lakeside site on New York's northern frontier shown here from the south. The French had built Fort St. Frédéric on the point in the 1730s, and after British forces took the position in 1759, they set about raising a new fort and a large camp nearby. This drawing, dated 1760 and inscribed No. 43, uses gray wash with black and sepia ink, a technique common in military survey work of the period. Its careful, map-like view shows how the ground was arranged for a garrison during the Seven Years' War.
| Created / published | [1760] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : gray wash, black & sepia ink. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1760. |
| Notes | Inscribed: No. 43. |
| Subjects | Military camps--New York (State)--1760.United States--New York--Crown Point |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 997 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125800 |
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