About the Artwork
Fort Detroit and Its Environs
between 1763 and 1764
John Montresor
1736-1799
English
Unknown
Pen and black ink and watercolor over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 5/8 inches (26 × 39.7 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
52.117
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right, in cartouche: John Montresor Chief Engr
Inscribed, as part of the drawing, lower right, in cartouche: PLAN of FORT DETROIT and its environs by John Montresor Chief Engr on ye Expedn Inscribed, in pen and black ink, recto, center: Detroit River Inscribed, in pen and black ink, recto, lower left: Huron Village Inscribed, in pen and black ink, recto, lower right: 1 2 300. 600 900 1200 feet Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center: 21 3/4 [?] x 16 7/8 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: approx/ 35111 [in circle]
Watermark: Lion rampant over HF opposed by GR
Provenance
Unidentified bookseller (London, England)
(The Old Print Shop, New York, New York, USA)
1952-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 254-255, no. 121.
"John Montresor's Plan of Fort Detroit." Bulletin of the DIA 32, 4 (1952/53): p. 96 (ill.).
Marshall, D.W. John Montresor in America, Eighteenth Century Military Maps. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1979, no. 19 (published with incorrect measurements).
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John Montresor, Fort Detroit and Its Environs, between 1763 and 1764, pen and black ink and watercolor over traces of graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 52.117.
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