print;
map
- Museum number
- Heal,Topography.181
- Title
- Object: Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis
- Description
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Map of London; encompassing Shoreditch, the Tower of London, Southwark, and Westminster Palace; the Tudor Royal Arms in wreath at top left, the City Arms at top right; fields surrounding the city; the buildings represented pictorially; at bottom centre two male and two female figures in contemporary costume; illustration to Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates orbis terrarum'. 1572
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1572
- Dimensions
-
Height: 335 millimetres
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Width: 488 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the second state of the plate. There were in total four states of the map, the third state replacing the figures at the bottom with a new title in cartouche, the last state dating from 1708. For further information and for derivatives and facsimiles see James Howgego, 'Printed Maps of London c.1553-1850' 2nd ed., number 2.
For an impression from the third state see G,1.11, and for the first state see G,2.3
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Civitates orbis terrarum (Cologne, 1572-1594)
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Heal,Topography.181
