Ogilby's Road from Chelmsford to Bury St Edmunds to Saffron Walden
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Ogilby's Road from Chelmsford to Bury St Edmunds to Saffron Walden
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Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet shows the roads between Chelmsford, Bury St Edmunds and Saffron Walden and features a decorative cartouche with a shepherd and shepherdess and their flock.
Ogilby showed smaller towns in detail for the first time, and it was largely thanks to his influence that the Statute Mile was set at 1760 yards. Read more
Ogilby devised the project late in life. Ogilby’s modern biographer, Alan Ereira, explores Ogilby's earlier incarnations as a dancing master, soldier, spy, theatre impresario and translator, through which Ogilby survived the turbulent 17th century.
Ereira also presents a provocative new reading of Ogilby's innovative and beautiful road atlas as a work of royalist propaganda – even expressed through the routes which he chose to include or emphasise.
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Copper engraving, printed area measurement 32.5 x 43 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso; published as sheet 92 in the 1698 folio edition Read less