Devonshire-Exeter-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18302

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(9), Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

'Exonia

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1690, as in e.g. Constable (1932)] 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.] (It also contains at (7) a map of Dublin and at (12) a prospect of Edinburgh.) Identification of Devon & Exeter Institution copy by pencil note. Scale is about 1:20,000 SW-NE, 1:8000 NW-SE.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.8 x 16.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part V, Devon & Exeter Institution [loose, i/d in pencil], West Country Studies Library SM B/EXE/1650/MER [i.e. misdated '1650'], CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690, J.C. Beer (Nurnberg)].

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Miscellaneous:

Filled to neatline by trees and 'molehills'.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title is on banner.

Borders:

decorative

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500