Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Title:
The road from Cambridge to Coventry [cartographic material] : containing 54 comp. and 80'4 measd. miles.
Published / Created:
[London] : [Thomas Bowles], [1720]
Physical Description:
1 map ; sheet 21 x 15 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 3d
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Notes:
Strip map showing street plan of larger towns, distances, buildings, bridges and their material of construction, topographic features, vegetation and water bodies. Includes text describing towns and local government areas, illustrations of municipal and local government coats of arms and distance table.

Engraved by Emanuel Bowen. See: Fordham.

Oriented with north to the right.

Includes notes about Cambridge University.

Plates 157-158 from: Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd, first published in 1720 by Thomas Bowles.

Fordham, H.G. Cambridgeshire maps, p. 132

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored.
Subject Terms:
Cambridgeshire (England) -- Adminstrative and political divisions -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Cambridgeshire (England) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Strip maps. | Maps -- England -- Cambridgeshire. | Engravings -- 1720.
Contributors:
Bowen, Emanuel, -1767, engraver. | Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher. | Ogilby, John, 1600–1676. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd.