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Maps
Examples of 16th and 17th century maps of Tudor England, as well as links to websites providing more detailed information.
Typus Cosmographicus Universalis (with 1537 edition of Novus Orbis Regionum : Ex Libris Principissae Piccolominiae Bibliotheca)
Year: 1537, Basle
© Stanford University
© Stanford University
Anglia II Nova Tabula [British Isles]
Year: 1542, Basle
© Stanford University
© Stanford University
Civitas Londinum Ano Dni MDLX / London in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: A Fas-cimile (reduced) of the map by Aggas 1560.
Year: 1560
Published: 1860
© Stanford University
Published: 1860
© Stanford University
LONDON and WESTMINSTER in the Reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH Anno Dom.1563
Artist: John Wallis
Year: 1789
© Antique Paper Company
Year: 1789
© Antique Paper Company
'Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis'
Artist: Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590); printed by Georg Braun (1541-1622).
Year: 1572
© The British Museum
Year: 1572
© The British Museum
'Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis'
Artist: Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590); printed by Georg Braun (1541-1622).
Year: drawn 1560; printed 1572
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Year: drawn 1560; printed 1572
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Saxton's map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Middlesex, 1575
Artist: Christopher Saxton
Year: 1575
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Year: 1575
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Saxton's map of Essex, 1576
Artist: Christopher Saxton
Year: 1576
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Year: 1576
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Saxton’s map of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Rutland, 1576
Year: 1576
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Saxton's map of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, 1574
Artist: Christopher Saxton
Year: 1574
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Year: 1574
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Saxton’s map of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1576
Year: 1576
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
Saxton's map of Staffordshire, 1577
Year: 1577
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
© UCLA Digital Library Collections
'Sheldon Tapestry' - Warwickshire
Year: c.1580s
© Warwickshire Museum
© Warwickshire Museum
Plan of Westminster, from Nordens survey, taken in Queen Elizabeths Reign, 1593
Artist: John Norden
Year: 1593
© Private Collection/Bridgeman Images
Year: 1593
© Private Collection/Bridgeman Images
Norden's maps of London and Westminster - Westminster
Artist: John Norden
Engraver: Pieter van den Keere
Year: 1593
© Yale University Library
Engraver: Pieter van den Keere
Year: 1593
© Yale University Library
Norden's maps of London and Westminster - London
Artist: John Norden
Engraver: Pieter van den Keere
Year: 1593
© Yale University Library
Engraver: Pieter van den Keere
Year: 1593
© Yale University Library
The Tower of London, 1597
© The National Archives
Civitas Londini
Artist: aft. John Norton
Year: c.1600
© The British Museum
Year: c.1600
© The British Museum
Map of the World from Ephraim Pagitt's Christianographie
Published: 1635
Map: c.1600
© Stanford University
Map: c.1600
© Stanford University
Anglia, Regnum si quod aliud in toto Oceano ditissimum et florentissimum
Year: 1603, Antwerp
© Stanford University
© Stanford University
County atlases of the British Isles
Artist: John Speed
Year: 1603-11
© Cambridge University Library
Year: 1603-11
© Cambridge University Library
County atlases of the British Isles - Midlesex including cities of London and Westminster
Artist: John Speed
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
County atlases of the British Isles - Staffordshire
Artist: John Speed
Year: 1608
© Cambridge University Library
Year: 1608
© Cambridge University Library
County atlases of the British Isles - Essex
Artist: John Speed
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
County atlases of the British Isles - Warwickshire
Artist: John Speed
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
Year: 1610
© Cambridge University Library
First separate map of British Isles. 1556. [NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND]
Agas Map of London 1561 [BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE]
List of Saxton's maps, 1576 [UCLA LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS]
Atlas of England and Wales. Aft. Christopher Saxton. 1579. [ROYAL COLLECTIONS TRUST]
LAYERS OF LONDON
MAP OF EARLY MODERN LONDON
John Speed's 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' (pub.1611/12) [CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY]
A Theatre of Treasures - Anne Taylor - 2016 (blog) [CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS]
John Speed [WIKIPEDIA]
Sheldon Tapestry Maps [UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PODCASTS]
Tapestry - map of Worcestershire - Sheldon Tapestry [VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON]
Sheldon tapestries [WIKIPEDIA]
Map of City of London Churches [FRIENDS OF THE CITY CHURCHES]
USEFUL LINKS
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