Greenwood’s Map of Middlesex
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Greenwood’s Map of Middlesex
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Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey
The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independent large-scale county atlases, in the teeth of competition from the Ordnance Survey. Read more
The maps are both decorative and detailed but, as Worms reveals in ‘British Map Engravers’ the project was not a financial success: in 1834 Christopher was imprisoned for debt and the engraved plates soon passed to other hands.
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Copper engraving, 63 x 73 cm, original hand-colour, map of Middlesex with black and white vignettes of Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, short split along platemark at lower left hand corner, blank verso. Read less