COLLECTION NAME:
Maps Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1211258
Reference Number:
Booker & Mills C365
Image Title:
Westmoreland
Parent Work Title:
Westmoria Comitatus: Anglice Westmorland
Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Creator Role:
Cartographer
Date Created:
c1648
Description:
Map: Westmoreland. Monochrome map with rich detail including cities, place names and rivers. Mountains and buildings are illustrated. The title is presented in an ornate cherub-decorated cartouche bottom right. Bottom left is a scale marked as: 'Quatuor, Milliaria, Anglica, five unum Milliare Germanicum'. This is decorated with three figures measuring. Top left is a coat of arms. Septentrio, Meridies, Oriens, Occidens (Latin for North, South, East and West) are printed around the edges. Top right are seven shields, two of which are empty. The top shield from which the others hang contains three lions, the others are the arms of: Raphe Nevill, John Duke of Bedford, John Duke of Somerset and John de Foix.
Language Name:
English
Language Code:
eng
Sub-Category:
Maps
Technique Used:
Printed
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
17th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Westmorland
Item Height:
495 mm
Item Width:
605 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
