Northumberland-Newcastle upon Tyne-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19687

Map Date:

? 1690

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.32.50

Historic county:

Northumberland

Town name:

Newcastle upon Tyne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ250640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Newe Castle. Novo Castrum.'

Comments on map:

Style strongly suggests derivation from Speed. This is perhaps the original of the map included as an inset on Exeter 19362, where it is attributed to William Mathew, but the style is sufficiently close (including the title on a banner-cartouche) to justify a provisional attribution to J.C. Beer [rather than to Matthias Merian] and dating to 1690 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 1967 BLML catalogue attributes this group [Exeter 18302, 19732-19745, etc] to Matthias Merian of Frankfort.]

Scale:

1:10,000*

Map-maker:

? Johann Christoph Beer [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 11.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.32.50, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, Part II.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial animals in fields; pictorial shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560