Greenwood's Map of Dorset
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Greenwood's Map of Dorset
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Map of the County of Dorset 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. Their map of Dorset includes a black and white vignette of St Mary’s Church, Sherborne. Read more
Their maps are both decorative and detailed, but the project was not a financial success: in 1834 Christopher was imprisoned for debt and the engraved plates soon passed to other hands.
Condition & Materials
Copper engraving, printed area measures 63 x 73 cm. Original hand-colour, a couple of trivial spots and stains, blank verso.
References
Worms & Baynton-Williams, British Map Engravers
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