Untitled [Plate B3 - Buckingham Palace & Green Park]
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A very popular section from an important map of London. The sheet extends from Piccadilly and St James's Square southwards to Pimlico Wharf, with Buckingham House and Green Park at the very centre of the map. In Belgravia individual garden designs are visible, such is the scale of the map. Horwood's masterpiece is described by Howgego as, "The Largest And Most Important Map Of London From The Eighteenth Century." The survey took no less than nine years to complete with every house shown (with its number, if it had one) along with alleyways, courts and even vacant plots. Among the subscribers were the directors of the Phoenix Assurance Office to whose trustees and directors Horwood dedicated the map. At no less than 26 inches to the mile it would have repaid the insurers' investment, affording detailed knowledge of London's potential fire risks. Slight evidence of old folds, otherwise in good, clean condition.
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