1780-1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Header Record

Title: The Atlantic Neptune [selected maps and charts]

GLC03103

1777

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Plan of Quebec and environs... in 1759

Not in Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution.

GLC03103.01

1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Chart of the harbour of Rhode Island and Narraganset Bay

The key shows the French and English fleets. Surveyed 7/20/1776. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 36.

GLC03103.02

1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Plan of the town of Newport

Companion print and detail of #3103.02, the chart of Rhode Island. Not in Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution.

GLC03103.03

1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Chart of Boston Harbour, 1781

Possibly a later impression of Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 3, who notes that it comes principally from the survey of George Callendar, 1769.

GLC03103.04

1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Broadside

Title: Nautical remarks and directions for Boston Harbour

GLC03103.05

1781

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Print

Title: A View of Boston taken on the road from the Dorchester, May 30 1776

GLC03103.06

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Print

Title: Castle William [near Portsmouth]

An unusual image: a very small one for the huge sheet.

GLC03103.07

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Chart of New York Harbour

Not in Nebenzahl "Battle Plans of the American Revolution."

GLC03103.08

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Print

Title: Untitled view of New York City, known as "the woody heights view"

GLC03103.09

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Chart of the Delawar [Delaware] River, etc. with military key

Two views of the upper and lower river, showing the place of Philadelphia on it. Surveys from 1777. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 136.

GLC03103.10

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: The Harbour of Charlestown [Charleston] in South Carolina

With a view of the city from the south side. Not in Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution.

GLC03103.11

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Sketch of the environs of Charlestown [Charleston] in South Carolina

The key provides military information. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 79, who notes a later state.

GLC03103.12

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Sketch of the operations before Charlestown [Charleston, S.C.]....

The key provides detailed military information. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 136.

GLC03103.13

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A Sketch of the battle near Camden in South Carolina, August 16, 1780

Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 89, who notes that the order of battle is correct while the terrain appears to be inaccurate.

GLC03103.14

1780

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: Untitled chart of the coast of Georgia and South Carolina [Savannah]

Includes small plan of the siege of Savannah in a cartouche.

GLC03103.15

17 January 1777

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: A sketch of the operations.... [Howe's occupation of New York]

One map entitled A sketch of the operations concerning Howe's occupation of New York dated January 17, 1777. From the Atlantic Neptune. The map depicts New York, roughly from Haverstraw Bay in the north, to Sandy Hook in the South. Land masses are shaded a faded brownish-yellow. Fortifications and troop placements are also shown. This engraving was accompanied by the "Phoenix and the Rose" in the Atlantic Neptune. E.N. Smith, American Naval Broadsides, 4 (state 1); Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 99 which calls this one of the greatest prints in the Atlantic Neptune. Other…

GLC10031

2 May 1778

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Print

Title: The Phoenix and the Rose engaged by the enemy's fire ships... on the 16th August

One print entitled The Phoenix and the Rose engaged by the enemy's fire ships... on the 16th August dated May 2, 1778. Aquatint with original watercolor wash, occupying lower half of sheet, below "References" referring to map of New York. The upper half has a list of lettered references referring to the Map of New York (GLC10031), with which it is conjugate. This copy is the second state, showing (dimly) the Palisades in background. (The first state lacks the Palisades and imprint.) Stokes and Haskell, American Historical Prints (p. 29; B100, state 2) note that this is "one of the very few…

GLC10032

1779

Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet des, 1722-1824

Map

Title: Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton

From the Atlantic Neptune. Engraved and tinted map showing the Hudson River by Anthony's Nose with the Americans' chains across the river. Plate no. 19. (The map mistakenly calls the mountain "St. Anthony's Nose.") Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 54.

GLC01850