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Kent-Rochester-1690

CBTM:
19744
Map Date:
[1690]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps c.27.e.3(16)
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Rochester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ742686
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 7569
Map title:
'Rochestria. Rochester.'
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:
1:12,000*
Map-maker:
[Johann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author].]
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
13.0 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)
Known copies of map:
BLML c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, Part XII; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien, f.p.196].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river and animals in fields outside walls.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1861-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1885
1:500
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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