print
- Museum number
- 1881,0611.254.1-6
- Title
- Object: London
- Description
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Map of London; top left, 'The Armes of the Right Wor:ll Companies' of 'Mercers', 'Grocers', 'Drapers', 'Fishmongers', 'Goldsmiths', and 'Skinners', and next to it, in a framed compartment, Westminster Abbey; top right, in a framed compartment, St Paul's Cathedral; bottom centre, a list of London churches; bottom right, map scale, and beside it, text outlining 'a breife Ichnograficall discription' of the city. 1658
Engraving, printed from six plates
- Production date
- 1658
- Dimensions
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Height: 926 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 1545 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In 1904 the Department purchased another earlier impression of this map for £120 from Captain Charles Lindsay (see Colvin's report dated 28 March 1904). This impression (1904,0414.13) was transferred to the Map Room in December 1946.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,0611.254.1-6
