Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

Title:

Southamtoniae comitatus (preter insulas Vectis, Jersey et Garnsey quae sunt partes eius dem comitatus) cum suis undiq[ue] confinibus, oppidis, pagis, villis, et fluminibus vera descriptio / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Leonardus Terwoort Antverpianus sculpsit.

Published / Created:

[London] : [Christopher Saxton], [1575]

Physical Description:

1 map : engraving ; 38 x 42 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2010 2e
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Scale:

Scale [ca. 1:200,000].

Notes:

Relief shown pictorially.

Appears in Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales.

Skelton, R.A. County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, p. 14

Selected exhibitions: "The Mapmaker's art : 300 years of British cartography" (Yale Center for British Art, January 17-March 12, 1989).

BAC: British Art Center copy on sheet 41 x 55 cm. Hand-colored.

Exhibition History:

The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)

Subject Terms:

Hampshire (England) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | England -- Hampshire.

Form/Genre:

Early works. | Maps. | Maps -- England -- Hampshire. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1575.

Contributors:

Terwoort, Lenaert, engraver. | Saxton, Christopher, 1542?- Atlas of England and Wales.