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John Rocque’s magnificent map of early Georgian London
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.
London,
John Pine and John Tinney,
1746.
Engraved plan on 24 sheets.
2100 by 4000mm. (82.75 by 157.5 inches).
1615
notes:
It would appear that John Rocque, a French Huguenot, emigrated with the rest of his family to London in the 1730s, where he began to ply his trade as a surveyor of gentleman's estates, and with plans of Kensington Gardens, and Hampton Court. However, in 1737 he applied his surveying skills to a much great task, that of surveying the entire built-up area of London. Begun in the March of 1737, upon a scale of 26 inches to 1 statute mile, the map would take nine years to produ...
bibliography:
Howgego 96 (1)
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