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ESSEX, devided into Hundreds, with the most antient and fayre Towne COLCHESTER Described and other memorable MONUMENTS observed

Cartographer:

SPEED, John

Engraver:

HONDIUS, Jodocus

Title:

ESSEX, devided into Hundreds, with the most antient and fayre Towne COLCHESTER Described and other memorable MONUMENTS observed

Stock Code:

3365

Method:

Copper engraving

Publisher:

T Bassett & R Chiswell

Colouring:

Later colour

Atlas:

The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain

Size: (W x H):

51cm x 39cm

20 inches x 15½ inches

Date:

1676

Price:

£1400

Speed drew on the work of John Norden for his map of Essex. His inset plan of Colchester ‘reveals a town of some prosperity with its castle, churches, dwellings and former religious houses, somewhat uncomfortably straddling a circle of walls of Roman origin’. (Nigel Nicolson: A Tudor Atlas by John Speed.) Above, there are three coins bearing the heads of the Emperor Constantine and his parents Constantius and Helena. Coats of arms of the Earles of Essex decorate the left hand side.

Fine condition, good margins.

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