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Blome 1673
FA1999.93:- 

Map, hand coloured etching, A Mapp of Hantshire, ie Hampshire with the Isle of Wight, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Richard Blome, about 1673.
Bloome's maps, published in his Britannia of 1673, were based on Speed's maps of 1611.
The plates were etched, some of them by Wencelaus Hollar, instead of the more usual copper plate engraving.
map feature:-  dedication & compass rose & scale line & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & forests & parks & fortifications & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements
inscription:-  -on- A MAPP OF HANTSHIRE
inscription:-  -on- bottom right To the Rt. Honl. Charles / Ld. St. Ion, Son & Heire / To the Rt. Honl. Iohn Ld. / Marquis of Winchester. / Ld. Lieutenant of / the County of Hantshire / This Mapp is humbly / Dedicated by Ric: Blome. -- cartouche, with crest above
scale line:-  10 miles = 65.2 mm
map type:-  HantsMap -- Blome 1673
dimension:-  scale = 1 to 250000 ? (from scale line assuming modern mile)

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MN: 7.1.2002