Bunker's Hill on N. York Island

Drawing shows distant view of wooded landscape with a few buildings.

Inscriptions on front are difficult to decipher.

Inscribed in ink on the back: Montresor.

Possibly owned or drawn by John Montrésor, British military engineer.

Published in: The iconography of Manhattan island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sovrces and illvstrated by photo-intaglio reprodvctions ... / by I.N. Phelps Stokes. New York : R.H. Dodd, 1915-28, v. 1, p. 362.

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 548.

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