Untitled [Lambeth]
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This sheet of Richard Horwood's multi-sheet map of London covers the area between Lambeth Palace in the North, the Oval in the South, Mill Bank in the West and Pratt Street in the East. Features of note include the Palace, Vauxhall Gardens, and the exciting place-name of "Naked Boy Alley". Horwood's map 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, showing every house (with its street number, if it had one), alleyways, courts and even vacant plots. Among the subscribers to the map were the directors of the Phoenix Assurance Office to whose trustees and directors Horwood dedicated the map. At the massive scale of 26 inches to one mile, the insurers had a vested interest in the project - it would have repaid their investment in the map, affording detailed knowledge of London's potential fire risks and those in need of their insurance services!
region: London Maps & Plans
mapmaker:
R.Horwood
place and date of publication:
London 1799
medium and colour:
copperplate, Uncoloured
ref:
37068
size in cms: 53 x 58 Price: £ 460 |
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