COLLECTION NAME:
Maps Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1211169
Reference Number:
Booker & Mills C200
Image Title:
Cumberland and Westmoreland
Parent Work Title:
A new map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland divided into their respective wards.
Date Created:
1760
Description:
Map: Cumberland & Westmoreland. The decorated cartouche top left contains a dedication: 'To the hon. Sr James Lowther of Lowther in Westmoreland, Bart. Lieutenant & Custos Rotalorum of Westmoreland and Lieutenant of Cumberland this map is humbly inscribed'. The cartouche at lower right contains the title and 'From the best surveys & Intelligences. Illustrated with historical extracts relative to natural history produce, trade & manufactures. Shewing also the rectories & vicarages, with various other improvements. 1760.' It is decorated with flowers, greenery and a green man.
Language Name:
English
Language Code:
eng
Sub-Category:
Maps
Technique Used:
Printed
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
17th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Wesmoreland
Places Covered:
England: Cumbria
Item Height:
760 mm
Item Width:
578 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Colonel Dudley Mills and Mr R.P.L. Booker, former owners
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions apply
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2012-02-07
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2012-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
