Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis

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Description

Title
Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis
Creator
Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590, engraver
Contributor
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622.
Published / Created
[1574]
Publication Place
Cologne and Germany Cologne
Publisher
Braun and Hogenberg
Description
BEIN 32 L84 1572: Manuscript annotations on verso in pencil and ink offering and justifying potential dates of 1561 and 1572.
Second edition of the earliest surviving printed map of London (first published in 1572). It is likely that the plan is a derivitive, reduced in size, of the Copperplate Map of ca. 1556-1558, which survives only in 3 of 20 original engraved copper plates.
Relief shown pictorially.
From Braun and Hogenburg's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1574.
"Assumed to have been engraved by Frans Hogenberg, to whom it is attributed by Hind ... Although ... [the first edition] was published in 1572 the London map was clearly based on information gathered some years earlier. St Paul's is shown with its spire which was destroyed in 1561. The cross in St. Botolph's Churchyard, burnt in 1559, is also shown. ..."--Howgego.
"The image represents a true plan, but it has been disguised by the three-dimensional rendering of the buildings and the boats on the Thames and by the notion that it is a panoramic view from the hill that the four figures in the foreground parade on. The idea of the plan was clearly familiar to the original surveyors but it was not one that was acceptable to a popular audience."--Foxell.
"Title, etc., as for [the first edition] but some alterations on the plate. For example 'Westmester' had been changed to 'Westmuster' and the Royal Exchange has been inserted. In the 1574 and later edits of the Civitates."--Howgego.
Latin notes on London and the Steelyard in panels bottom left and right corners; descriptive Latin text printed on the verso.
Tudor and city of London coats of arms top left and top right of plate; four figures in contemporary costumes bottom centre.
Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored.
Extent
1 map ; 32 x 48 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Scale
Scale approximately 1:9,000
Coordinates
(W 0°07ʹ30ʺ--E 0°0ʹ0ʺ/N 51°31ʹ12ʺ--N 51°29ʹ24ʺ).
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
32 L84 1572

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Maps
Chron
Resource Type
cartographic image
Subject (Geographic)
London (England)
Subject (Topic)
Maps
Early works to 1800
Subjects
London (England) > Maps > Early works to 1800
Chron > 1574

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
11871058
Object ID (OID)
15259826

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