Norfolk-Norwich-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19742

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(14)

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233097

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Norwich. Nordovicum'.

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. [Frostrick's no.15.] 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.] As usual with 'Cunningham'-derived maps, scale is longer north-west to south-east than it is south-west to north-east.

Scale:

1:21,120*

Map-maker:

[Johann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.7 x 16.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Castle scarcely recognisable for what it is].

Known copies of map:

Raymond Frostrick's no.15. BLML c.27.e.3; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1, Norwich Library Box XI [1690: Johann Christoph Beer: Das neu geharnischte..., f.p.148].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560