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Blome 1673
FA2001.10:- 

 Map, uncoloured 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.
Bloome was an entrepreneur, skilled in attracting sponsors for his publications; he even used interchangeable coats of arms for different editions of his maps; this map is dedicated to Charles, Lord St John.
map feature:-  drape cartouche & title cartouche & dedication & coat of arms & scale line & compass rose & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements
inscription:-  -on- A MAPP OF HANTSEERE
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 Hanshire / This Mapp is humbly / Dedicated by Ric: Blome. -- cartouche, with crest above
scale line:-  10 miles = 65.1 mm
map type:-  HantsMap -- Blome 1673
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 31x33.5cm
wxh, plate = 261x303mm
wxh, map = 258x298mm
scale = 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 247211 from scale line assuming modern mile)
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reference:-  Bloome, Richard: 1673: Britannia (taken from)
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MN: 7.1.2002