Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19737

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(7)

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Cambridge

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL449587

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 4459

Map title:

'Cambrids. Cambridge'.

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer and dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169) and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19. The British Library copies of Exeter 18302 and 19732-19745 are in a modern bound volume without title-page or any other identification. The only text on the map is in the title. [BLML '1967' catalogue suggests ? Matthias Merian, Frankfort.]

Scale:

1:10,000*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 16.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML c.27.e.3, BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 10, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, part V.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560