Title
[View of English Harbour in the Island of Antigua] : To the R.t Hon.ble SIR JOHN LIGONIER Kn.t of the Bath Lieuten.t General & the rest of the Principal Officers of His Majesty's ORDNANCE. This View of English Harbour in the Island of Antigua, taken from the Hill at the upper End, is most humbly Dedicated by their Hon.rs most dutiful & obliged humble Servant William Brasier. / W. Brasier Jun.r Deputy Draughtsman to the Office of Ordnance Delin.t ; Tho.s Major Sculp.
Creator
Major, Thomas, 1720-1799, printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd April 30, 1756, as the Act directs, [April 30 1756]
Physical details
1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 34.7 x 51 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 52.6 cm
Description
Two draughtsmen survey and sketch English Harbour from a hill in the foreground, with a young black man leaning on their chair at left, a semi-clad woman carrying a baby on her back standing outside her hut at right and a goat behind; Capstan House and wharf and Horseshoe battery at left, entrance to the port in the middle and Berkley fort and Navy Yard at right in the background, with Freeman's Bay seen in distance beyond. Title contains Ordnance coat of arms. Watermark.
Place
Antigua
Other persons
Brasier, William, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.123.87.