map HMCMS:FA2004.3

Map Collection

Taylor 1759

FA2004.3:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, 6 sheets, scale about 1 mile to 1 inch, by Isaac Taylor, 1759.

The 6 sheets are folded and pasted into a hard back guard book, marbled paper covers with leather spine. In the volume the sheets are numbered 1,2,4,3,6,5 from the bottom right. The volume originally also held maps of Cornwall, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, and some 'general' maps.

The colouring is very bright; it has been protected from fading by the maps being in a book. It could have been done anywhen during the maps' history, at a guess, perhaps early 19th century?

map feature:-

title cartouche & scroll cartouche & dedication & table of symbols & subscribers & vignettes & compass rose & winds & lat and long scales (rectangular) & lat and long grid & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & hundreds & settlements & roads & canals & antiquities & mills & water mills & windmills & ships

inscription:-

printed -on- lower right, sheet 1 With submission, / TO ... / in grateful remembrance of the kind Assistance in this Work / and the many particular Favours they have honoured me with, / this Map of Hampshire, / Including the ISLE of WIGHT, / is most Humbly Dedicated / BY their most obliged humble Servant / Isaac Taylor. / Augst. 20th. 1759. / Estates are accurately Survey'd and / maps of them neatly drawn at the / Customary Prices. -- scroll cartouche with decoration and scene

inscription:-

printed -on- bottom right, sheet 1 R Benning Sculp

inscription:-

embossed -on- spine CORNWALL / DORSET & / HAMPSHIRE

inscription:-

ms -on- title page REFERENCES / General Map of Cornwall / Ditto in 9 Sheets / General Map of Dorsetshire / Ditto in 6 sheets / General Map of Hampshire / Ditto in 6 Sheets / Isle of Wight in 4 Sheets

scale line:-

4 miles = 99.4 mm

map type:-

HantsMap -- Taylor 1759

dimension:-

wxh, book = 41x55cm

wxh, sheet = 73x54.5cm

wxh, sheet = 73x56cm

scale = 1 to 65000 ? (1 to 64762 from scale line assuming modern statute mile)

List of Map Collection

map type Taylor 1759 -- class record in checklist

map type Taylor 1759 -- map type, menu of resources

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