LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS A major exhibition at the British Library, 24 November 2006 – 4 March 2007 LIST OF EXHIBITS Introductory area William Morgan, London &c actually surveyed. London, 1682. Crace II. 58 Getmapping. London, 2000 The Walled City William Stukeley, ‘Caesar’s Camp at Pancras called the Brill’ [1749]. Maps Crace XIV.48 & ‘Caesar’s Camp at Pancras in its primitive state 1 August 1750’. Maps Crace XIV.47 Gold medallion of 9 solidi struck in Trier in AD 310. From the Arras hoard (1922). Musée des Beaux Arts d'Arras, France Gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia, Londonwic, c.805-10, Trustees of the British Museum; Silver penny of King Egbert of Mercia, London, 828-9, Trustees of the British Museum; Silver penny of King Alfred, London, c.890. Trustees of the British Museum Seal of the City Corporation from about 1190, until 1967 used the same seal showing St Paul with drawn sword and the banner of England and on the other side, Thomas Becket. Seals lxviii.18 & 19 (photographs) Matthew Paris, Itinerary from London to Jerusalem, c.1250. Royal MS 14.C.VII f.2 Poésies de Charles, Duc d'Orléans, c.1480. Royal MS 16.F.II, f.73 John Grove, A South-East view of the City of London Engrav’d from a very Antient Picture. 1754. Maps K. Top. 21.58 Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, Panorama of London and Westminster, c.1540. Facsimile. 1881-2. Maps 184.f.2(1) William Smith, view of London, Westminster and Southwark from A Particular Description of England, 1588. Sloane MS 2596, f.52 Claes Jansz. Visscher, Londinum Florentissima Britanniae Urbs Toto Orbe Celeberrimum Emporiumque. Amsterdam, 1616. Maps C.5.a.6 Wenceslaus Hollar, Serenissimae Mariae invicitissimae Magnae Britanniae . hunc amoenissimum celeberrimi Londinensis emporia ac sedes regalis aspectum. Antwerp, 1647. Maps 162.h.4 John Norden (?), The View of the Cittye of London from the North towards the Sowth, London, c.1615. Private collection Copperplate showing the area around St Paul’s Cathedral in about 1556-8, on the back of a painting of the Tower of Babel by a member of the circle of Martin van Valkenborch, c.1600. Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Germany Letter of Nicholas Reynolds to Abraham Ortelius mentioning the Copperplate map, London, [1562-3]. Add. MS 63650.Q 'Londinum feracissimi Angliae regni metropolis' from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Cologne, 1623. Maps C.29.e.1 Photo detail from the first edition of 1572 showing the Cornhill area before the insertion of the Royal Exchange G.3603 Frans Hogenberg, Exterior of the Royal Exchange from Cornhill, c.1570. Maps K.Top.24.11- a - 2 Civitas Londinum, c.1633. Guildhall Library, City of London Richard Newcourt (surveyor) & William Faithorne, Sr. (engraver), [An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Svbvrbs Thereof, Together with the Burrough of Southwark and all the Throughfares, Highwaies, Streetes, Lanes &Common Allies within the same Composed by a Scale and Ichnographically described by Richard Newcourt. 1658 [late edition of about 1661].London, 1661. Maps Roll 17.a.3 Wenceslaus Hollar, Plan of the West Central District of London c.1660. Trustees of the British Museum. Plan of Borough High Street, Southwark, c.1542. The National Archives, London, MPC64 Ralph Treswell, plan of houses along Fleet Lane (now 16 Fleet Lane, 16-21 Farringdon Street, Modern Court), 1612 Clothworkers’ Company Plan Book, 47. The Master and Wardens of The Clothworkers Company Great seal, in use from 1663 to 1672, shows Charles II on horseback before a panorama of London copied from the Visscher print of 1616. Seal xxxix.2 John Evelyn's Diary. Add. MS 78323 Platte Grondt der Stadt London met nieuw model en hoe die afgebrandt is. Amsterdam,1667. Maps Crace. 1.49 Wenceslaus Hollar, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within The Ruines of the city of London, … . London, 1669. Crace 1.50 John Leake, ‘An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes, churches comprehended within the ruins of the city of London’, January - March 1667. Add. MS 5415.1.E London Reborn H. Hulsbergh (engraver), Plan of the city of London after the great fire in the year of our Lord 1666; with the model of the new city according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren. 1721 [Proof without title text] Maps K. Top. 20.19-3. Nicholas Hawksmoor (?), ‘St Bridget’, c.1695. Maps K. Top. 23.10-e Robert Hooke, final design for the Monument, 1675. Add. MS 5238.78 John Ogilby and William Morgan, A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Distinct from Westminster and Southwark. London,1676. Maps Crace II.61 Office of Works draughtsman after Ralph Greatorex, ‘Plan of the Palace of Whitehall’, c.1670. Maps Crace XI.65 Leendert Knyff, A bird’s-eye view of Whitehall Palace from the east, 1695-7. Trustees of the British Museum ‘John Carters ground in Stepney containing eight akers, two roodes and seaven perche measured in June 1671’ accompanying Privy Seal warrant, 29 July 1671. Harley MS 7344 art. 72 ‘Proposalls made and agreed between Richard Frith of St Martins in the Fields & the severall & respective Tradesmen hereunto subscribing’ [1688] with plan. Add. MS 16370.115, 116 Jan Kip, Veue et Perspective de la Ville de Londre (sic.) Westminster et Parc St Jacques. London, c.1728. Maps *3518 (9) Ralph Treswell, Map of lands between Piccadilly and Oxford Street, 1585. The National Archives ‘The ground plot of Arundell house and gardens’, c.1678. Maps K. Top. 21.10- 4. Map of the Davies estate in the parishes of St Martin and St Margaret Westminster, c.1665. Add. MS 38104 ‘Map of the Grosvenor estate in St George’s Parish as it was in the year 1723’, 19th-century copy. Maps Crace X.19 John Haynes, An Accurate Survey of the Botanic Gardens at Chelsea, 1751. Maps K. Top. 28.4-p Richard Bennett, A New & Correct Plan of London, including all the New Buildings &c. London, c.1760. Engraved map on silk mounted on fan with ivory and bone telescopic sticks. Private collection. John Rocque, Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark. London 1747. Maps *3480 (293) Thomas Taylor, A View of the Inside of the Royal- Exchange in Cornhill, London as it now is, 1712. Maps K. Top. 24.11-k ‘The Inside of the King’s Theatre Pantheon drawn from the stage 1791’. Maps K. Top. 25.20-1-b Section of the Boxes at the King’s Theatre Pantheon with the Alphabetical List of Subscribers to the King’s Theatre Pantheon: with references to their different boxes. London, 1791. 118.b.38 (2) [photograph] James Heath after Francis Wheatley, The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780. London, 1790. Maps K. Top. 22.9 ‘Disposition of the Troops and Patroles in and about London and Westminster during the Riots in 1780’. Annotated copy of Carrington Bowles’s Reduced New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster . 1780. Add. MS 15533, f.39 London's Villages John Rocque, An Exact Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the Country near 10 miles round. London, 1746. Maps K. Top. 6.87-5 TAB END Philip Lea, A Mapp containing the Townes Villages Gentlemens Houses Roads Rivers Woods and other Remarks for 20 Miles Round London, c.1690. Maps Crace XIX.10 John Rocque, ‘A Survey of the House Gardens & Grounds at Putney Belonging to Edward Gibbon Esqr. 1744’. Add. MS 14411 Thomas Milne, Land Use Plan of London & Environs in 1800. Maps K. Top. 6.95 [Lt. Col W. Twiss], Neat drawing of East London and the Lea Valley etc at 3 inches to the mile sent for engraving, 1799. Maps OSD 131 Confirmation (c.988) of charter by Ethelred the Unready bestowing land in Hampstead on the newly-founded Westminster Abbey, 986. Stowe Charter 33 John Corris, 'A Plan of Putney Parish with parts of the parishes of Wimbledon and Mortlake within the Manor of Wimbledon', 1787. Add. MS 78153 D Trade cards of Smith & Bye, c. 1805. Maps 188.v.25 & T. Starling, 1818. Maps 188.v.26. John Rocque, Plan of the house, gardens, park and plantations of Wanstead in the county of Essex, 1735. Maps K. Top. 13.30 – a 11 TAB Henry Holland, ‘Henry Holland’s House in Sloane Street’, 11 August 1790. Maps K. Top. 28.4-dd-3 George Robertson, A North View of the Cities of London and Westminster, with part of Highgate, taken from Hampstead Heath. London, 1780. Maps K. Top. 21.53 A Plan of the Academy at Norlands, near Kensington Gravel Pits, conducted by Thomas Marquois, c.1770. Maps K. Top. 30.11-1 Joseph Salway, Kensington High Street and Kensington Church Street from the Kensington Turnpike Trust Drawings, 1811. Add. MS 31325, ff. 27v-28 Charles Smith, Map of Country Twelve Miles round London, September 1822. Maps 3479 (124) [Thomas Denton?], St John of Jerusalem manor, c.1810. Add. MS 31323 MM & YY The East End Thomas Porter, The Newest and Exactest Mapp of the most Famous Citties London and Westminster, with their Suburbs; and the manner of their Streets. London, [1654]. Maps Crace I.34 Joel Gascoyne, An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan alias Stebunheath Being one of the Ten Parishes in the County of Middlesex... London, 1703. Maps K. Top. 23.11-h Photograph of the title panel of the map, showing St Dunstan pinching the Devil’s nose.