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Checklist of Hampshire Maps
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Taylor 1759
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Map of Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by
Isaac Taylor, 1759.
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Published as a 6 sheet map; this the first map of the county at this
useful scale. |
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The map has an inset plan of Silchester; and vignettes of Silchester,
Portchester Castle, Carisbrook Castle, Netley Abbey, etc. |
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A reproduction of the map was published at 3/4 size, small enough to make the
lettering hard to read, by the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society,
1933. |
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scale line:-
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example:-
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map -- HMCMS:FA2001.141
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map feature:-
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mounted & 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 |
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inscription:- |
printed -- lower right
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 |
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inscription:- |
printed -- bottom right
R Benning Sculp
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scale line:-
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4 miles = 101.1 mm |
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map type:-
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HantsMap -- Taylor 1759
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dimension:- |
wxh, mount = 145x166cm |
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scale = 1 to 64000 ? (1 to 63673 from scale line assuming modern statute
mile) |
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scale = 1 to 650000 ? (from town positions using DISTAB.exe) |
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map type tabulation
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map type Taylor 1759 -- menu of resources
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maps:-
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HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
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HMCMS:FA2001.141 -- map
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HMCMS:FA2002.515 -- reproduction map
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HMCMS:FA2004.3 -- map
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HMCMS:KD1996.6 -- reproduction map
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| MN: 15.10.2001 |