MRP: Visual & material culture

Visual & Material culture

Editorial history

01/12/11, CSG: Restructured heading typeface size
02/01/12, CSG: Changed name of page to Visual and Material culture

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Overview

This page is a provisional page addressing potential sources on the visual and material culture of merchants and of related occupations, with the focus on illuminating the visual and material culture of George Oxenden, Elizabeth Dalyson, and their commercial, family, and social circles.

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Suggested links

See Visual images

See Copyright: text, images & maps

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To do

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Engraving sources: Brasil

Barlaues (Van Baerle), Casparis, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis, ex typographico Ioannis Blaeu (Amsterdam, 1647)
- Full-page engraved portrait, and 56 finely engraved double-page maps, plans and views on 58 sheets
- See Antiquariaat Forum: Rare books: recent acquisitions

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Engraving sources: England

Beverell, James, Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne (Leiden, XXXX)

- Published by Pieter van der Aa, Leiden
- See 'Mercers Chappel'; an early uncoloured engraving of Mercers' Hall on Cheapside. Uncoloured. Good condition. This was the first home of Bank Of England in 1694 and the Head Office of the East India Company in 1702. 6 1/4 x 5 inches

Brewer, J. Norris, Introduction to the Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Intituled the Beauties of England and Wales (London, 1818)

Buck, Samuel and Nathaniel, Views of Ruins of Castles & Abbeys in England, vols. ?-? (London, 1726-1739)
- "Samuel & Nathaniel Buck"Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales"

Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 1, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)]
- Deals with places within twenty miles from London
- ?Further volume covers Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey (London & Surrey excepted), Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire

Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 2, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)
- Deals with places in England further than twenty miles from London

An Italian manuscript published by Mawman as the Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, during the Reign of King Charles the Second (1669) (but published in this form London 1821)
- The text contains a number of views "as delineated at that period by artists in the suite of Cosmo"

Morden, Robert, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704)
- Fifty-three copper plates
- Available as Google Free-Eook

Spencer, Nathaniel, The complete English traveller, (London, 1771)

The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands [London: J. Cooke] [1779]

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Engraving sources: France

d’Alquie, Francois Savinien, Les Delices de la France, ou Description des Provinces & Villes Capitalles d’icelle: Comme Aussi La Description des Chateaux & Maisons Royalles. Plus Celle des nouvelles Conquetes, avec leurs Figures au naturel, printed in duodecimo by Jaques Moukee, 49 plates (Leiden, 1685)

- See offline out of copyright images (Map of France, Bordeaux, Brest, Dieppe, Geneve, La Rochelle, Lions (Lyons), Marseilles, Nantes, Orleans, Paris, Rouen, Saumur & Tour (others in original text, but not downloaded)

Dallington, Robert, A method for travel. Shewed by taking the view of France as it stoode in the yeare of our Lord 1598 (London, 1606)

Sanson, Nicholas, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683)

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Topographical guides

Daniell, Walter V.; Nield, Frederick J., Manual of British topography, a catalogue of county and local histories, pamphlets, views, drawings, maps, etc. connected with and illustrating the principal localities in the United Kingdom (London, 1909)

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Public non-commercial sources of images

By far the best source of high quality black and white digital images for non-commercial use on this wiki is the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.bnf.fr

See BNF non-commercial reproduction conditions

Historic cities website, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Images are copyrighted, though the underlying physical documents are out of copyright
- See http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html

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Online sellers of engravings

Netherlands based

Gert Jan Bestebrertje Rare Books
- Vianen, the Netherlands
- http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com
- Catalogue 51: Dutch West India Company

Antiquariaat Forum
- t Goy-Houten, the Netherlands
http://www.forumrarebooks.com

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UK based

Heatons of Tisbury
- http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk - Heatons of Tisbury

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US based

Paulus Swaen, Florida
- http://www.swaen.com

RareCharts, South Carolina
- http://www.rarecharts.com

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Cartographic bibliography

Howgego, James, Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850, 2nd ed., Wm. Dawson and Sons, Ltd, Kent, England, 1978 [No. 184].

- John Cary map of London, pre-1818

- Greenwood mao of London, 1827