COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Rocque, John
Author:
Parr, Richard
Date:
1747
Short Title:
Composite: London Sheets I-XVI An Exact Survey of the City's of London and Westminster
Publisher:
W. Pratt
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Composite Map
Obj Height cm:
211
Obj Width cm:
281
Scale 1:
12,300
City:
London (England)
Region:
London Region (England)
Full Title:
(Composite map to) Sheets I-XVI An Exact Survey of the City's of London and Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country Near Ten Miles Round Begun in 1741 & Ending in 1745 by John Rocque Land Surveyor & Engrav'd by Richard Parr
List No:
10258.020
Series No:
20
Publication Author:
Rocque, John
Publication Author:
Parr, Richard
Pub Date:
1747
Pub Title:
An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round ; begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to act of Parliament...Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis...Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster, et bourg de Southwark
Pub Reference:
Howgego 94 (3) but with title date 1746 so in between (2) and (3).
Pub Note:
Title is taken from title page for the set of 16 maps. The title of the map itself is "An Exact Survey of the City's of London and Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country Near Ten Miles Round Begun in 1741 & Ending in 1745 by John Rocque Land Surveyor & Engrav'd by Richard Parr." This is the first edition, second state of the bound version of the map, with title page, list of subscribers, and index. Originally in a bound volume, the set is now flattened and in a portfolio case. "This is the first printed map to contain detailed plans of all the individual villages around London. Rocque, who did not have the support of the Royal Society or the Corporation of London for this map, seems to have gambled on the assumption that there would be enough wealthy Londoners prepared to purchase maps showing their country estates to make such a map commercially viable. The map combines the conventions of the estate surveyor to distinguish various sorts of land-use (e.g. gardens, orchards, ploughed lands, pasture, and woods) with those of the French-trained military surveyor to depict physical relief (hills, rivers) though details like field boundaries are not reliable. The result was a totally new sort of map, dedicated to the architect Earl of Burlington, whose London home is now the Royal Academy and whose still-surviving Palladian country house in Chiswick he had mapped in the previous decade. At the top Rocque can be seen surveying with a theodolite from a City church tower." Peter Barber, London A History In Maps, page 110. Sheet I is dated 1744, Sheet VI dated 1746, Sheet XIII dated 1744, all other sheets not dated.
Pub List No:
10258.000
Pub Type:
City Atlas
Pub Maps:
16
Pub Height cm:
54
Pub Width cm:
38
Image No:
10258020.jp2
Authors:
Rocque, John; Parr, Richard
Composite: London Sheets I-XVI An Exact Survey of the City's of London and Westminster
