Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Capper, Benjamin Pitts

Title:

Cambridgeshire : in which is laid down every parish and place containing upwards of 40 houses.

Published / Created:

[London] : Published by G. & W.B. Whittaker, 13 Ave Maria Lane, 1824.

Physical Description:

1 map ; 17.9 x 10 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 3k
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Scale:

Scale approximately 1:500,000

Notes:

Drawn and engraved by Henry Cooper (see: Fordham). The engraver's name is erased in the present version.

From Benjamin Pitts Capper's A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom (London : G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1825). Originally published in 1808.

Bar scale in British miles.

Fordham, H.G. Cambridgeshire maps, II, pages 164-166

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. On sheet 21.9 x 11.4 cm.

Subject Terms:

Cambridgeshire (England) -- Maps.

Form/Genre:

Maps -- England -- Cambridgeshire. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1824.

Contributors:

Capper, Benjamin Pitts. Topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom. | G. and W. B. Whittaker, publisher. | Cooper, Henry, active 1804–1829, engraver.