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Map Collection
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Blome 1673
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FA2001.10:-
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Map, uncoloured 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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Bloome was an entrepreneur, skilled in attracting sponsors for his publications;
he even used interchangeable coats of arms for different editions of his maps;
this map is dedicated to Charles, Lord St John.
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map feature:-
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drape cartouche & title cartouche & dedication & coat of arms &
scale line & compass rose & coast shaded & rivers & relief &
hillocks & woods & parks & county & hundreds & table of
hundreds & settlements |
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inscription:- |
-on-
A MAPP OF HANTSEERE
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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 Hanshire / This
Mapp is humbly / Dedicated by Ric: Blome.
-- cartouche, with crest above |
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 65.1 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 31x33.5cm |
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wxh, plate = 261x303mm |
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wxh, map = 258x298mm |
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scale = 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 247211 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 |