BY JOHN PINE AND JOHN TINNEY AFTER JOHN ROCQUE, THE PRINTED PANELS MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH PRINTED PAPER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN
BY JOHN PINE AND JOHN TINNEY AFTER JOHN ROCQUE, THE PRINTED PANELS MID-18TH CENTURY
Depicting a survey of the City 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... THIS WORK WAS BEGUN IN MARCH 1737 AND PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 1746...', with dedicatory cartouche to Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, the whole now mounted on ebonised and mushroom material covered leaves, the back panelled and with gilt lines.
84 x 156 in. (214 x 396 cm.) overall

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Lot Essay

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.

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