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C1607
Cornwall olim Pars Danmoniorum
Mapmaker:
Christopher Saxton / William Kip
Rare map of Cornwall featuring a superb inset view of Launceston Castle at top left decorated with a crest and ornate strap work frame. The title has an ornate surround and there is an elaborate scale of distances at lower … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Cornwall olim Pars Danmoniorum
Date:
C1607
Mapmaker:
Christopher Saxton / William Kip
Condition:
Lower right hand side section of margin extended, otherwise in good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
395mm
x 300mm
Paper Size:
410mm
x 307mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1607
Description:
Rare map of Cornwall featuring a superb inset view of Launceston Castle at top left decorated with a crest and ornate strap work frame. The title has an ornate surround and there is an elaborate scale of distances at lower left. The seas are decorated with a galleon and a sea monster.
From the rare first edition of Camden’s Britannia with county maps; this edition is identified by the Latin text on the verso and lacking a plate number on the map.
Image size: 300mm x 395mm (12″ x15.8 ), Sheet size: 307mm x 410mm (12.28″ x 16.4″)
Mapmaker:
Christopher Saxton (c.1540-c.1610)
Saxton was a British estate surveyor and draughtsman, best known for his maps of English counties. Apprenticed to the cleric and cartographer John Rudd, Saxton developed the skills to become the man now known as ‘the father of English cartography’. Under the patronage of Thomas Seckford, Saxton carried out an extensive topographical survey of England and Wales during the years 1573-1578. 34 county maps based on the surveys were engraved between 1574 and 1578 by Remy Hogenberg, Lenaert Terwoort, Cornelis de Hooghe, Augustine Ryther, Francis Scatte, and Nicholas Reynolds, forming the first atlas of England and Wales. The work was the basis for many later maps. The maps were issued by Saxton in untitled volumes from 1579, and subsequently reissued as The Shires of England and Wales, by William Web in 1645, by Philip Lea (with added maps) and in a French edition Atlas Anglois in 1693, by G Willdey in 1732, by T Jefferys in 1749, and finally as a wall map of England and Wales in 20 Sheets in c. 1770.
William Kip (fl. c.1585 -1618)
Dutch engraver, best known for his work on the series of English County Maps by Saxton, published in William Camden’s Britannia. Most likely trained as a goldsmith and jeweller, Kip arrived in England in around 1585.
