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Isle of Wight-Newport-1690

CBTM:
19743
Map Date:
[1690]
Repository reference:
BL 577.f.2
Historic county:
Isle of Wight
Town name:
Newport
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ355896
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SZ 3988
Map title:
'Novus Portus. Newport.'
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:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
[Johann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author].]
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.8 x 16.0
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 28.bb.13, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part III; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: 13 x 17 cm, in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Brittannien, f.p. 274].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Trees and broken tree-stump in lower part of map.
Relief:
'molehills'
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1862
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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