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Thamesis Descriptio Anno 1588 (Map of the Thames, 1588)
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Thamesis Descriptio Anno 1588 (Map of the Thames, 1588)

BM J,11.11

Map of the Thames looking south with Kent marked uppermost and Essex below; running from Tilbury Hope on the extreme left, past Tilbury fort, Northfleet, Gravesend, St Clements, Erith, Tripcott, Woolwich, Greenwich, Deptford, Limehouse and Ratcliff to the Pool and London, showing tributaries and creeks and illustrating the key towns, forts etc., to north and south, with Southwark distinguished from London and Lambeth and Westminster further west in the extreme right; marked with lines radiating from the key towns to map angles in the river; bordered by a rectangular frame with scrolled plaques above and below the cetnre, decorated with firing cannons, barrels, balls and a royal crest above and spears, standards and thunder-bolts below. 1740 Engraving on a folded sheet of paper

Date
1740
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: John Pine: After: Robert Adams: Intermediary draughtsman: Joseph Ames: Published by: John Pine
Place
England
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,809 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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