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John Stow

Also known as: John Stow; primary name: Stow, John; other name: Stowe, John
Details: individual; author/poet; British; Male
Life dates: 1525-1605
Biography: Historian, writer, editor and collector; author of the 'Survey of London' (1598), the "Chronicles of England' (1580), and the 'Annales of England (1592).
Bibliography: DNB Ian Gadd & A.Gillespie (eds), 'JS and the making of the English past', 2004

159 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1874,0314.392 |
Producer name: BIOG17562 Drawn by:John Wykeham Archer |
Production date: 1843

drawing

Museum number: 1880,1113.3841 |
Producer name: BIOG27237 Drawn by:James Findlay |
Production date: 1855

print; title-page

Museum number: Y,5.318 |
Producer name: BIOG31959 After:Jodocus Hondius |
Production date: 1580-1620

print; map

Title: The Parish of St James's Westminster, taken from the last Survey, with Corrections |
Museum number: G,5.71 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1853,0112.1927 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ambrose William WarrenPublished by:J Stratford |
Production date: 1808 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Powis House in Ormond Street |
Museum number: G,7.76 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Scholae Mercatorum Scissorum Lond. facies orientalis |
Museum number: G,12.110 |
Producer name: BIOG39796 Print made by:James Mynde |
Production date: 1756

print; book-illustration

Title: The South Sea House in Bishopsgate Street |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3949 |
Producer name: BIOG20574 Print made by:Thomas Bowles II |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Iohn Stow Historian |
Museum number: G,8.173 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 Print made by:George Vertue |
Production date: 1728

print; book-illustration

Title: Southampton or Bloomsbury Square |
Museum number: 1948,0315.6.49 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hoxton Hospitall |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.25.29 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Prospect of Grays Inn |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4341 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: Monument of John Stowe in the Church of St. Andrew Vestiges of Old London |
Museum number: 1851,0614.54 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Wykeham ArcherPublished by:David Bogue |
Production date: 1851 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Leicester Square |
Museum number: G,5.58 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Golden Square |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2989 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1730 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: St Thomas Hospitall in Southwark |
Museum number: 1948,0315.2.51 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration; map

Title: A Mapp of Lime Street Ward taken from ye last survey & corrected |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.224 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Golden Square |
Museum number: G,5.74 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1730 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Newcastle House in Lincolns Inn Fields |
Museum number: 1880,0911.868 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: A Map of St Sepulchers without Charterhouse Liberty and Clarkenwell Parish |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.206 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1755

print; book-illustration

Title: Stow's Monument |
Museum number: 1880,0911.626 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Pye JnrAfter:John Preston Neale |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: Tower Street Ward |
Museum number: G,9.242 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: Farrington Ward without, with its divisions into parishes, taken from the last survey with correctio |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.211 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Prospect of White-hall from the Park of St James |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2288 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: A Mapp of the Parish of St Martins in the Fields, taken from ye last Survey with Additions |
Museum number: Mm,15.126 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1755

print; book-illustration

Title: St Martin's Church |
Museum number: G,5.230 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print; book-illustration

Title: Grovenor Square |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4567 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Attributed to:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1730

print; map

Title: A Mapp of the Parish of St Giles's in the Fields taken from the last Survey with Corrections and Ad |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.200 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Monument |
Museum number: 1948,0315.9.108 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: The Parish of St James Clerkenwell Taken from ye last Survey With Corrections |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.205 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Sohoe or Kings Square |
Museum number: Mm,15.123 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: Creplegate Ward... |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.208 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Newcastle House in Lincolns Inn Fields |
Museum number: G,6.264 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: Shoreditch, Norton Folgate, and Crepplegate Without... |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.209 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: St Olave and St Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Southwark, Taken from ye last Survey With Corrections |
Museum number: G,2.59 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Custom House |
Museum number: 1948,0315.12.123 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: A New Plan of the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark |
Museum number: G,9.10 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1880,0911.627 |
Producer name: Print made by:James StorerAfter:Henry Mayle Whichelo |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Grovenor Square |
Museum number: G,14.30 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1730

print; book-illustration

Title: The Inside View of the Rotunda in Renelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2459 |
Producer name: BIOG20574 Print made by:Thomas Bowles II |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: St James's Square |
Museum number: G,4.81 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1730 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: A mapp of the Parish of St Mary White Chappel |
Museum number: G,9.58 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Prospect of Grays Inn |
Museum number: G,7.84 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Hospitall calld Bedlam |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.9 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Iohn Stowe, Historian & Antiquary |
Museum number: G,12.85 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Thomas SmithPublished by:Nathaniel Smith |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; map

Title: Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward with its division into parishes taken from the last surveys |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.216 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: A Mapp of the Parish of St Margarets Westminster taken from the last Survey with Corrections |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.203 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: Coleman Street Ward and Bashishaw Ward taken from the last survey, with corrections and additions |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.220 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map; book-illustration

Title: The Tower and St Catherins |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.230 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration; map

Title: Langborne Ward...Candlewick Ward |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.221 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Monument |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3868 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1725-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Prospect of Guild Hall |
Museum number: 1948,0315.9.3 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Stowe's Monument |
Museum number: G,12.84 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Thomas SmithPublished by:Nathaniel Smith |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: A Mapp of the Parish of St Anns taken from the last Survey, with corrections, and additions |
Museum number: Mm,15.125 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1755

print; book-illustration

Title: Cow Cross being St Sepulchers Parish without and the Charterhouse |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4100.2 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Hanover Square |
Museum number: 1948,0315.4.84 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; map

Title: Billingsgate Ward and Bridge Ward Within... |
Museum number: 1880,0911.601 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: The Wards of Farington within and Baynards Castle with its divisions into parishes taken from the la |
Museum number: 1880,0911.770 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1755

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Mr Iohn Stow Historian |
Museum number: 2006,U.1682 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 19thC

print; map

Title: A New Plan of the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark |
Museum number: G,5.1 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: Bishopsgate Street Ward taken from the last survey and corrected |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.223 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Charter House |
Museum number: 1948,0315.6.149 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: A Mapp of the Parish of St Martins in the Fields, taken from ye last Survey with Additions |
Museum number: G,3.314 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: The Monument of Mr John Stow; now standing in the Parish Church of St Andrew Undershaft |
Museum number: G,12.86 |
Producer name: BIOG47695 Print made by:John Sturt |
Production date: 1720

print; map; book-illustration

Title: A map of the Parish of St Mary White Chappel |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.231 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Mountague House in Great Russell Street |
Museum number: 1948,0315.6.51 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1728

print; book-illustration

Title: Mountague House in Great Russell Street |
Museum number: G,7.60 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1728

print; book-illustration

Title: Mountague House in Great Russell Street |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4411 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1728

print; book-illustration

Title: Bowyer's History of England |
Museum number: 1858,1009.211 |
Producer name: After:Robert SmirkePrint made by:John Landseer |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Buckingham House in St James's Park |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2394 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: St James's Square |
Museum number: 1948,0315.7.117 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bow Church |
Museum number: 1978,U.3633 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Charter House |
Museum number: Y,5.61 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Prospect of Bridewell |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3244 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Prospect of Bridewell |
Museum number: 1948,0315.7.56 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: St James's House |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2256 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: St James House |
Museum number: 1948,0315.4.7 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: Mr Iohn Stow Historian |
Museum number: P,1.257 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 Print made by:George Vertue |
Production date: 1728

print; map

Title: A Map of the Parish of St Mary Rotherhith |
Museum number: G,2.61 |
Producer name: BIOG30700 Print made by:John Harris |
Production date: 1720

print; map; book-illustration

Title: A Map of the Parishes of St Olave and St Thomas Southwark |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.233 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Newcastle House in Lincolns Inn Fields |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4377 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720-1728 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map; book-illustration

Title: Tower Street Ward with its division into parishes, taken from the last survey with corrections |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.228 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration; map

Title: Broad Street Ward with its division into Parishes Cornhill Ward with its division into Parishes take |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.222 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map; book-illustration

Title: A Mapp of the Parishes of St Saviours Southwark and St Georges |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.232 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: St Bartholomew's Hospital in Smithfield |
Museum number: G,7.164 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map; book-illustration

Title: Aldgate Ward with its division into parishes taken from the last survey, with corrections & addition |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.226 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: Somerset House |
Museum number: 1948,0315.10.77 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1839,0209.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SwainePublished by:William Pickering |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: The wards of Farington within and Baynards Castle... |
Museum number: G,11.40 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: Broad Street Ward with its division into Parishes Cornhill Ward with its division into Parishes take |
Museum number: G,12.118 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Leicester Square |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3002 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; map

Title: Billingsgate Ward and Bridge Ward Within... |
Museum number: G,10.57 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: St Bartholomew's Hospital in Smithfield |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4127 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map; book-illustration

Title: St Olave and St Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Southwark taken from ye last survey with corrections |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.234 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: St James's Square |
Museum number: 1880,1113.2200 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Royall Exchange of London |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3692 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; book-illustration

Title: The Prospect of Lincoln's Inn |
Museum number: G,6.248 |
Producer name: BIOG33824 Print made by:Jan Kip |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; map

Title: Billingsgate Ward and Bridge Ward Within... |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.217 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: St Thomas Hospitall in Southwark |
Museum number: 1880,1113.5237 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720

print; map

Title: A Map of St Giles's Cripple Gate without with large additions and corrections |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.207 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1720