Plan and profiles of a projected bridge at fort Nieuw Amsterdam

Title Leupe: "Teekening der brug over de capitaale gragt van het fortres Nieuw-Amsterdam dieselve van ter zijden en van booven te zien"

This 1789 design shows a proposed bridge to be built over the main moat of the Nieuw-Amsterdam Fort. It contains a side

and topview with two profiles and a plan for a drawbridge.

At the rear side the following is written: "No. 21, Register 17, part 1, folio 90." Marked “Depôt des cartes, plans et journaux de la Marine.”

Taken from: mission report of Governor-General Wichers from 19 August 1789.

Scale-bar of 1 : 84 or 7 Rhineland feet on 1 ‘duim’.