John Rocque’s magnificent map of early Georgian London

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A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark...

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ROCQUE, John
London,
John Pine and John Tinney,
1746
Engraved map on 24 sheets.
2100 by 4000mm. (82.75 by 157.5 inches).
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It would appear that John Rocque, a French Huguenot, emigrated with the rest of his family to London in the 1730s, where he began to ply his trade as a surveyor of gentleman's estates, and with plans of Kensington Gardens, and Hampton Court. However, in 1737 he applied his surveying skills to a much great task, that of surveying the entire built-up area of London. Begun in March of 1737, upon a scale of 26 inches to one statute mile, the map would take nine years to produce...

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