Tanger Bay

Bound sheet. Ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Physical description Note: Two sheets joined. Scale: [ca. 1:14 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 170 degrees. Scale in feet. Additional Places: Tangier. Contents Note: Hills shown in profile, rotational view.
From Volume ten of the Dartmouth collection of maps and plans.

Administrative / biographical background
Charles II acquired Tangier in 1662 as part of his dowry from Catherine of Braganza. The Dartmouth volume contains maps and views documenting works on the fortications of the city and their deliberate destruction when the 'costly, useless and pestilential settlement' was abandoned.

Record Details

Item reference: P/43(9); MS 48-9843
Level: PART
Creator: Anonymous
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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