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ROCQUE, John (c.1704-1762)

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£ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1105641
Lot 101 | ROCQUE, John (c.1704-1762)
ROCQUE, John (c.1704-1762)

A plan of the cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings, from an actual survey. London: John Pine & John Tinney, 1746.

A magnificent wall map of early Georgian London, highly detailed and larger than any earlier published map of the city. Its publication was a defining moment in the history of London cartography, since 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 was primary topographical record of mid-18th-century London. Begun in March of 1737, with a scale of 26 inches to one statute mile, the map took nine years to produce. John Rocque, a Hugenot, came to London in about 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. Darlington & Howgego 96 (1).



Very large wall map of in 24 sheets joined, extending west to east from Hyde Park to Limehouse and north to south from New River Head to Walworth, title in cartouche bottom centre surmounted by the arms of the City of London and with the arms of Bluemantle and Bridge House to either side, the whole flanked by a male dude, and a female nude with child, scale in cartouche to bottom left with list of abbreviations surmounted by a compass rose and putti with drawing instruments, dedicatory cartouche to bottom right to the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen, surrounded by putti symbolising commerce, liberty, etc., the whole 2100 x 3945mm.

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