Map Collection

FA1997.119.9:- 
Map, A Map of Cornwall, county map, with inset for Scilly Isles, published by John Harrison, 115 Newgate Street, London, 22 July 1790.
The Eddystone lighthouse is clearly shown.
map feature:-  hand coloured & title cartouche (plain box) & compass rose (fleur de lys for north) & scale line & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements & rivers & parks & roads & lat and long scales & lat and long grid & coast form lines
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche A / MAP / OF / CORNWALL, / ENGRAVED FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY, / with Improvements.
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom centre London, Engraved for J. Harrison, No. 115, Newgate Street, as the Act directs, 22 July, 1790.
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom left/right Heywood Del. / Sudlow Sc
dimension:-  wxh, plate = 48x35cm

MN: 5.1.1998