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London and Middlesex. 'Civitas Londi[nium]'. Panoramic view of London, from St James's...
Catalogue reference: MPEE 1/25
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This record is about the London and Middlesex. 'Civitas Londi[nium]'. Panoramic view of London, from St James's... dating from [c.1633] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPEE 1/25
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c.1633]
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Description (What the record is about)
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London and Middlesex. 'Civitas Londi[nium]'. Panoramic view of London, from St James's Park and Westminster Hall (both now in the London Borough of Westmnister) to Smithfield and the Tower of London, and from just south of the River Thames to the northern hills. Shows streets (some named), fields, waterways, quays, ships and boats, tenter grounds, human figures and animals. Buildings drawn in bird's-eye view: St Paul's Cathedral, churches, gates, crosses, London Bridge, bull and bear baiting rings, windmills. Title on ribbon. Arms of James I at top left; arms of the City of London at top right, supported by two putti. Ornate cartouche at lower left gives history of the city; plain cartouche at lower right contains ten lines of verse. No scale shown. Oriented to the north. Inscribed 'MDLX'. The original woodcut is thought to have been made by Ralph Agas in the early 1560s, after the burning of the spire of St Paul's cathedral in 1561. This is a copy of a later edition, presumed to have been made in 1633, from evidence in the cartouche at the lower right. Transferred from the Commissioners of Crown Lands in 1955.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MR 276; LRRO 1/575
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 71 cm x 184 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles,c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 46 (erroneously dated 1560). IreneScouloudi, 'A discovery at the Public Record Office', Guildhall Miscellany, no4, February 1955, pp 36-37. James Howgego, Printed Maps of London, (Folkestone,1978), entry no 8. P D A Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, (London, 1993), plate53 and p 74. Stephen Powys Marks, 'Dating the copperplate map and its firstderivatives', pp 7-15, in Tudor London: a map and a view, ed Ann Saunders andJohn Schofield, London Topographical Society publication 159, (2001).
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