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Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Title(s):
Westmoria comitatus : Anglice Westmorland.
Published/Created:
[Amsterdam] : [Joan Blaeu], [1645]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 36 x 48 cm, on sheet 52 x 62 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2010 2d
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale [1:75,000].
Notes:
Derived from the map in Speed's Theatre.
Imprint derived from the earliest atlas in which the map was issued.
Issued in this state in successive editions of the atlas until the plate was destroyed in 1672.
Shows hundred boundaries, rivers, woods, parks and settlements ; coats of arms.
Relief shown pictorially.
Skelton, R.A. County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, p. 75
County of Westmorland.
BAC: British Art Center copy with text in French on reverse. Hand-colored.
Subject Terms:
Westmorland (England) -- Early works to 1800 -- Maps.
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