Gloucestershire-Bristol-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19738

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(8)

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Bristol

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST585730

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5773

Map title:

'Bristolia. Bristol.'

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 seems rather elastic.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

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

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part IV; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien, fp 242].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

CP

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ships in river and animals in fields around city.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1879-82

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560