[Fitzrovia .]
- Map
- Used
Seller: Altea Antique Maps, London, United KingdomAltea Antique Maps
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London: 1793-4. 565 x 525mm. Sheet 1B from Horwood's survey of London, on a scale of 26 inches to a mile, covering Fitzrovia. The area mapped is from Tottenham Court Road west to Devonshire Place, marking Fitzroy Square (without the central garden in the completed map). There is little development north of the Euston Road, but of interest is 'Jews Harp House', a coffee house that was a hot-bed of Jacobin insurrection. William Blake refers to it and the nearby farm in his poem 'Jerusalem': 'The Jews-harp-house & the Green Man; / The Ponds here Boys to bathe delight: / The fields of Cows by Willans farm: Shine in Jerusalems pleasant sight'. Within twenty years both had disappeared as the area was developed as Regent's Park. Very early examples of this plate has a view looking north from the 'New Road' (Euston Road); by the time the map was completed this was replaced with mapping, as this example, but the join in the plate can still be seen. HOWGEGO: 200, and pp.21-22, the 'largest and most important London map of the eighteenth century'.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- [Fitzrovia .]
- Author
- HORWOOD, Richard.
- Publication year
- 1794
Altea Antique Maps
London, United Kingdom
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Antique Map Dealer, since 1992, specialist in: Original Antique Maps, Rare Maps, Sea Charts, Antique Prints, Wall Maps, Celestial Maps, Globes and Atlases. Our Gallery is located in the center of London opposite Sotheby's auction house, between Oxford Circus and Bond Street. Visitors are welcome, our opening ours are: Monday-Friday 10 am to 6 PM, Saturdays 10 AM to 4 PM.
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Altea Gallery Ltd
35 Saint George Street
London, United Kingdom W1S 2FN
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