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Map Collection
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Blome 1673
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FA1999.93:-
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Map, hand coloured etching, A Mapp of Hantshire, ie Hampshire with the Isle
of Wight, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Richard Blome, about 1673.
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Bloome's maps, published in his Britannia of 1673, were based on Speed's maps of
1611.
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The plates were etched, some of them by Wencelaus Hollar, instead of the more
usual copper plate engraving.
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map feature:-
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dedication & compass rose & scale line & coast shaded & rivers
& relief & hillocks & forests & parks & fortifications &
county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements |
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inscription:- |
-on-
A MAPP OF HANTSHIRE
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inscription:- |
-on- bottom right
To the Rt. Honl. Charles / Ld. St. Ion, Son & Heire / To the Rt. Honl. Iohn
Ld. / Marquis of Winchester. / Ld. Lieutenant of / the County of Hantshire /
This Mapp is humbly / Dedicated by Ric: Blome.
-- cartouche, with crest above |
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 65.2 mm |
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dimension:- |
scale = 1 to 250000 ? (from scale line assuming modern mile) |
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reference:- |
Bloome, Richard: 1673: Britannia (taken from) |
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Map Group -- Blome 1673 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 7.1.2002 |