Devonshire-Devonport-1756
CBTM:
19808
Map Date:
2.2.1756
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.11.87
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SX454547
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'A geometrical plan, and west elevation of His Majesty's Dock Yard, near Plymouth, with the Ordnance Wharfe, &c.'
Comments on map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no. 112. Includes a small part of the town, running down to the water's edge between the dock yard and ordnance wharf, hence inclusion here.
Scale:
1:1728
Map-maker:
Thomas Milton [sv, drew, ? pb], I. Cleveley ['shipping': ? eng], P.C. Canot [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.3 x 47.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [In detail, but unlike Exeter 19806 there are no pictorial elements; Mast Pond, Timber Ground, Ordnance Wharfe].
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.112: BLML K.Top.11.87.
Gardens:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Above map: 'West elevation'; in border: nine vignettes of ships, mostly on fire or otherwise in an univiting condition.
Borders:
decorative: Rococco, with vignettes.
Symbolic elements:
Putti, angel blowing trumpet, drawing instruments: decorate supplementary scale.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
A second scale of feet, with a cross section through a ship, has above it drawing instruments: all this is on a drape help by two putti, with a trumpet-blowing angel above, holding a shield with the royal arms.
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map: [Assumed thus: three lions heads, with leopard or lion supporters].
Dedicee of map:
Rt Hon George Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, Viscount Parker and President of the Royal Society.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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