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THE PLAN DATED 1746, THE FRAME LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A GEORGE II PLAN OF LONDON MOUNTED ON A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN
THE PLAN DATED 1746, THE FRAME LATE 19TH CENTURY
The front decorated with a panoramic plan of London inscribed 'A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the contiguous buildings, from an actual survey taken by John Rocque, Land Surveyor, and engraved by John Pine Blue Mantle pursuivant at arms majesty. This work was begun in March 1737 and published in October 1746 according to the Act of Parliament, by John Pine at the Golden Head against Burlington House, Piccadilly, and John Tinney at the Gold Lion, Fleet St. London where they are to be sold', a further cartouche inscribed 'To the Right Honourable Sir Richard Hoare, Kt. Lord Mayor and Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon without and to the City of London', with a list of all the Alderman 'This plan in gratitude for assistance received from them in the execution of it, most humbly inscribed by their most humble and obedient servants John Pine and J. Tinney', on a moulded mahogany plinth with channelled border and embossed red leather reverse, slightly distressed and with some overpainting
Rocque's important large-scale survey of London was the first 'post-fire' map to be made since William Morgan's plan of 1682, and the primary topographical record of mid-18th-century London. John Rocque, a Hugenot, had come to London c. 1730, and having trained as a surveyor and engraver made estate surveys of Kensington Gardens and Hampton Court. By 1737 Rocque had moved to mapping towns and counties, beginning his ambitious survey of the entire built-up area of London in 1737, which was to take nine years to complete. Cf. Howgego 96.
Each leaf - 89 in. (223.5 cm.) x 20¾ in. (53 cm.)
THE PLAN DATED 1746, THE FRAME LATE 19TH CENTURY
The front decorated with a panoramic plan of London inscribed 'A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the contiguous buildings, from an actual survey taken by John Rocque, Land Surveyor, and engraved by John Pine Blue Mantle pursuivant at arms majesty. This work was begun in March 1737 and published in October 1746 according to the Act of Parliament, by John Pine at the Golden Head against Burlington House, Piccadilly, and John Tinney at the Gold Lion, Fleet St. London where they are to be sold', a further cartouche inscribed 'To the Right Honourable Sir Richard Hoare, Kt. Lord Mayor and Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon without and to the City of London', with a list of all the Alderman 'This plan in gratitude for assistance received from them in the execution of it, most humbly inscribed by their most humble and obedient servants John Pine and J. Tinney', on a moulded mahogany plinth with channelled border and embossed red leather reverse, slightly distressed and with some overpainting
Rocque's important large-scale survey of London was the first 'post-fire' map to be made since William Morgan's plan of 1682, and the primary topographical record of mid-18th-century London. John Rocque, a Hugenot, had come to London c. 1730, and having trained as a surveyor and engraver made estate surveys of Kensington Gardens and Hampton Court. By 1737 Rocque had moved to mapping towns and counties, beginning his ambitious survey of the entire built-up area of London in 1737, which was to take nine years to complete. Cf. Howgego 96.
Each leaf - 89 in. (223.5 cm.) x 20¾ in. (53 cm.)
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