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Map Collection
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Kitchin 1751 small
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R15:-
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Map, Hampshire, hand coloured copper plate engraving, Hampshire and Isle of
Wight, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, published in the Small English Atlas, by
Thomas Kitchin, London, about 1751.
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The maps of Kitchin are copies, not based on original surveys despite
extravagant claims to the contrary.
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map feature:-
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hand coloured & title cartouche & coat of arms (municipal, Southampton)
& compass rose & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular)
& table of symbols & coast form lines & rivers & relief &
hillocks & woods & settlements & roads |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- cartouche
HAMPSHIRE / Drawn from the best / Surveys & Maps / Corrected from / Astronl.
Observations / By T. Kitchin Geographr.
-- beehive, trees, ship |
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scale line:-
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15 miles = 43.5 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, plate = 22.5x19.5cm |
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scale = 1 to 550000 ? (1 to 54946 from scale line assuming modern mile) |
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reference:- |
Kitchin, Thomas: 1749 = 1787: Small English Atlas (taken from) |
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Map Group -- Kitchin 1751 small -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 7.1.2002 |