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The River of Thames

Editorial history

01/01/12, CSG: Created page

Suggested links

See Blackwall
See Gravesend
See Greenwich
See Limehouse
See Redrith
See Woolwich

See The River Tapti

Images

North Kent and River of Thames, Detail from Kent, Cany, 1814

Kent, Cany, 1814

Middlesex, Robert Morden, 1704

Essex, Robert Morden, 1704

Image credits and copyright information

(1) Detail of north Kent and river of Thames from 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)

(2) 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)

(3) Morden, Robert, 'Middlesex,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 45 & 46

(4) Morden, Robert, 'Essey,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 24 & 25

Profile

Notes

Suggested image sources

Small scale

'Fig. 5: A chart of the estuary of the River Thames by John Seller based on the survey by Sir Jonas Moore', in N.J.W.Thrower (ed.), The Compleat plattmaker: essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1978), p. 144

Thames at London

'A General View of the City of London and the River Thames,' plate 2 from 'Views of London', 1794, a painting by Thomas Bowles

Suggested primary sources

Suggested secondary sources

Farrington, J, A history of the river Thames (XXXX, 1810)
- Note: "John and Joseph Boydell's landmark in English topography, A History of the River Thames. Engraved by Stadler, J. C."
- Illustrations of interest include:
--'Rochester bridge, and castle'
--'Maidstone'

XXXX, XXXX, A History of the River Thames (XXXX, 1795)