Kent-Dover-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19739

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(10)

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Dover

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR318416

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3247

Map title:

'Dower. Dover.'

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]:

13.0 x 16.2

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial): With guns on cliff-top outside castle, and what is presumably the Roman lighthouse.

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, part XIII; CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien, fp 422]; East Kent Archives DHB Addl/P.80/1 [? also 1690].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in sea, in harbour, and in a line behind breakwater.

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560