Kent-Canterbury-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19733

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(2)

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Canterbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR151579

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1562

Map title:

'Canterbury. Cantuaria.'

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:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.8 x 16.7

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): [Castle inferred from buildings].

Known copies of map:

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

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

CP

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560