Maps & Views of London

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London ca. 1558–1603

Title: The City of London as in Q. Elizabeth's Time
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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London ca. 1553–9

Title: Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis
Creator: Frans Hogenberg (engraver) and Georg Braun
Work: Civitates orbis terrarum
Publication date: 1572
Courtesy of Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps

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London 1553–9

Title: Civitas Londinum
Creator: attributed to Ralph Agas
Publication date: ca. 1651
Courtesy of the Stephen S. Clark Library, University of Michigan Library

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London ca. 1560

Title: Londinum vulgo London
Creator: Jan Jansson
Work: Theatrum Praecipuarum Urbium, Positarum Ad Septentrionalem Europae Plagam
Publication date: 1657
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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City of London 1593

Title: A Guide for Cuntrey Men. In the famous Cittey of London
Creator: John Norden
Work: Speculum Britainiae [Mirror of Britain]
Publication date: 1653
Courtesy of the British Library

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City of London 1593

Title: London
Creator: John Norden
Work: Speculum Britainiae [Mirror of Britain]
Publication date: 1653
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Westminster 1593

Title: Westminster
Creator: John Norden
Work: Speculum Britainiae [Mirror of Britain]
Publication date: 1653
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Prospect of London ca. 1600

Title: Londinum florentissima Britanniae urbs
Creator: Claes Jansz Visscher
Publication date: ca. 1625
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Prospect of London ca. 1600

Title: London the glory of Great Britaines Ile
Creator: James Howell
Work: Londinopolis; an historicall discourse or perlustration of the city of London
Publication date: 1657
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Prospect of London ca. 1600

Title: Civitas Londini
Creator: John Norden
Publication date: 1657
Courtesy of the National Library of Sweden

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Britain, ca. 1640

Title: Britannia Prout Divisa fuit Temporibus Anglo-Saxonum, Praesertim Durante Illorum Heptarchia
Creator: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), Amsterdam
Publication: ca. 1640
Private collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Prospect of London 1647

Title: [London. The long view] Ad Londinum epitomen & ocellum
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1647
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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London 1658

Title: London
Creator: print made by William Faithorne after Richard Newcourt
Publication date: 1658
© The Trustees of the British Museum
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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West Central District of London ca. 1660

Title: Bird's-eye plan of the west central district of London
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: ca. 1660
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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London 1666

Title: A Generall Map of the whole City of London with Westminster & all the Suburbs
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1666
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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City of London 1666

Title: A Map or Groundplott of the City of London, with the Subyrbes Thereof
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1666
© The Trustees of the British Museum
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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City of London 1666

Title: A Plan of the City and Liberties of London after the Dreadful Conflagration in the Year 1666
Creator: Emmanuel Bowen, after Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1772
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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City of London 1666

Title: An Exact Surveigh of the Streets Lanes and Churches Contained Within the Ruines of the City of London
Creators: John Leake and Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1669?
Courtesy of the Yale Library

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City of London proposal 1666

Title: A Plan of the City of London, After the Great Fire in the Year of Our Lord 1666, According to the Design & Proposal of Sir Christopher Wren, Kt. for Rebuilding it
Creator: after Christopher Wren
Publication date: 1809
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Prospect of London 1666 - hand coloured

Title: A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London from S. Marie Overs Steeple in Southwarke
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1666
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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Prospect of London 1666

Title: A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London from S. Marie Overs Steeple in Southwarke
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Publication date: 1666
Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland

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Survey & Ground Plot of the Palace of Whitehall 1670

Title: A Survey & Ground Plot of the Royal Palace of White Hall with the Lodgings and Apartments belonging to their Majesties
Creator: John Fisher (active 1680) (artist); George Vertue (1684–1756) (engraver)
Publication date: 1747
Courtesy of The Royal Collection Trust

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The City of London 1676

Title: A New and Plaine Mapp of the Citty of London shewing the Streets Lanes Alleys Courts Churches Halls and other remarkable places as they are now rebuilt
Creator: John Overton
Publication date: 1676
© The Trustees of the British Museum
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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London 1677

Title: A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London
Creator: John Ogilby and William Morgan
Work: A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London
Publication date: 1677
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library

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Covent Garden 1690–1790

Title: Plan of Bedford House, Covent Garden, &c. taken down about 1690 from a drawing in the possession of John Crowle
Publication date: 1809
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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London ca. 1700

Title: Londinum Urbs Praecipua Regni Angliae [London, the Principal City of the Kingdom of England]
Creator: anonymous
Publication date: ca. 1700
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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St. James Palace and Park 1707

Title: le Palais et Park de St. James
Creator: Johannes Kip
Publication date: 1707
Publication: Britannia Illustrata
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Marylebone 1708

Title: Marylebone
Creator: Henry Pratt
Publication date: 1708
Courtesy of the The National Archives, Kew, Surrey

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Prospect of London 1710

Title: London
Creator: Gerard van Keulen
Publication date: ca. 1728
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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London, Westminster, and St. James Park 1710-1720

Title: A Prospect of the City of London, Westminster and St. James's Park
Creator: Johannes Kip
Publication date: ca. 1710–1720
Courtesy of the the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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London, Westminster, and Southwark 1720

Title: A New Plan of the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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Great Britain ca. 1720–29

Title: A new map of Great Britain: according to the newest and most exact observations
Creator: Herman Moll
Publication date: ca. 1720?–1729?
Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Map and Prospect of London, Westminster, and Southwark ca. 1725

Title: Actuale Survey of London Westminster Southwark
Creators: Jean Covens and Corneil Mortier
Publication date: ca. 1725
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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London, Westminster, and Southwark 1735

Title: A new and exact plan of the city's of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark
Creators: Thomas Jefferys and William Morgan
Publication date: 1735
Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Urbium Londini et West Monasterii nec non Suburbii South wark

Title: Urbium Londini et West Monasterii nec non Suburbii South wark
Creator: Homann Heirs publishing firm
Publication date: 1736

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London, Westminster, and Southwark 1736

Title: London surveyed or a new map of the cities of London and Westminster and the borough of Southwark...
Creators: Herman Moll and sold by Thomas Bowles
Publication date: 1736 (date questionable)
Courtesy of the New York Public Library
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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The Cities of London and Westminster 1741–5

Title: An Exact Survey of the City's of London and Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country Near Ten Miles Round Begun in 1741 & Ending in 1745
Creator: John Rocque, land surveyor and Richard Parr, engraver
Publication date: 1747
Courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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View of London ca. 1746

Title: A North View of London
Creator: John Stevens after Giovanni Antonio Canal
Publication date: 1794
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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London 1746

Title: A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark
Creator: John Rocque
Publication date: 1746
Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Exchange Alley, Cornhill 1748

Title: Plan of the late Fire in Cornhill
Work: The Gentleman's Magazine volume 18, 1748
Courtesy of: the Wellcome Library
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Exchange Alley, Cornhill 1748

Title: A New & Correct Plan of all the Houses destroyd and damaged by the FIRE which began in Exchange-Alley,-Cornhill, on Friday, March 25th, 1748
Work: London Magazine
Publication date: March, 1748
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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Prospect of London 1749

Title: A long view of London and Westminster from the new bridge at Westminster to the Tower
Creators: Samuel Buck and Nathaniel Buck
Publication date: 1749
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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View of London 1752

Title: The north prospect of London taken from the Bowling Green at Islington
Creator: Thomas Bowles
Publication date: 1752
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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View of London 1752

Title: The south west prospect of London from Somerset Gardens to the Tower
Creator: Thomas Bowles
Publication date: 1752
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
CC BY-SA 4.0

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The Botanic Gardens at Chelsea 1753

Title: An Accurate Survey of the Botanic Gardens at Chelsea with the Elevation and Ichnography of the Green House and Stoves, and an Explanation of the Several Parts of the Garden, shewing where the most conspicuous Trees and Plants are Disposed
Creator: John Haynes
Publication date: 1753
Private Collection
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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London, Westminster, and Southwark 1761

Title: A New and Correct Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, with several Additional Improvements, not in any former Survey
Creator: Robert Dodsley
Publication date: 1761
Courtesy of the University of North Texas Libraries

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London and Environs 1773

Title: A Mapp of the Countries Thirty Miles round London: Drawn & Engraved From Accurate Surveys
Creator: Thomas Kitchin
Publication date: 1773
Courtesy of the McMaster University Library
CC BY-NC 2.5 CA

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London, Westminster, and Southwark 1799

Title: Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and Parts Adjoining Shewing Every House
Creator: Richard Horwood
Publication date: 1792–1799
Courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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London and environs 1800

Title: Fairburn's Map of the Country Twelve Miles Round London
Creator: John Fairburn
Publication date: 1800
Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Public domain: no known copyright restrictions

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London and environs 1806

Title: Twenty-five Miles Round London
Creator: Scatcherd and Co.
Publication date: 1806
Courtesy of the McMaster University Library
CC BY-NC 2.5 CA

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Map of Portsoken Ward (Strype, 1720)

Title: Portsoken Ward being part of the Parish of St. Buttolphs Aldgate
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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Map of The Tower Liberty (Strype, 1720)

Title: A Map of the Tower Liberty
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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Map of The Tower Liberty and St. Catherines (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Tower and St. Catherins
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Bethlehem Hospital (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Hospitall call'd Bedlam
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Bridewell (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Prospect of Bridewell
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Chelsea College (Strype, 1720)

Title: Chelsea College
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Christ Hospital (Strype, 1720)

Title: Christ Hospital
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Hoxton Hospital (Strype, 1720)

Title: Hoxton Hospitall
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of London Bridge (Strype, 1720)

Title: London Bridge
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of Morden College (Strype, 1720)

Title: Morden College
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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Bird's Eye View of Soho Square ca. 1725

Title: Sohoe or Kings Square
Creator: Sutton Nicholls
Publication date: c.1725, this state 1754
© The Trustees of the British Museum
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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View of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (Strype, 1720)

Title: St. Bartholomew's Hospitall in Smithfield
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of St. Thomas Hospital in Southwark (Strype, 1720)

Title: St. Thomas Hospitall in Southwark
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of the Charter House (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Charter House
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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View of the Tower of London (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Tower of London
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections

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The Gates of London (Strype, 1720)

Title: The Gates of London
Creator: John Strype
Work: Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Publication date: 1720
Courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Library Archives & Special Collections