Antique map-SEA CHART-ENGLAND-KENT-DOVER-MARGATE-SANDWICH-Mount & Page-1702

Engraving on hand laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 60.5 x 51.9 cm. The image size is ca. 54.3 x 42.4 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 23.8 x 20.4 inch. The image size is ca. 21.4 x 16.7 inch.

Antique map, titled: ”A Large Draught of the Downes Shweing the Sands Shoales Depths of Water and Anchorage with all the Leading marks to Avoide the Dangers therein.” – Sea chart of the English coast (Kent), from Margate to Dover, including Sandwich. Churches and villages are depicted inland. Depth soundings and sand banks etc are indicated in the sea. With rhumb lines, sight lines and compass rose. Two land profiles inset in the top left. From the “Sea-Atlas” published by Mount & Page, London, 1702-1707.Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Samuel Thornton’. Samuel Thornton (d.1715) was the son the English mapmaker John Thornton, an eminent English mapmaker of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. After his father’s death in 1708, Samuel Thornton continued to re-issue his father’s map (often with his imprint substituted).

Condition: Very good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Faintly browned in the middle fold. Some small stains and browning in the margin edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE MAP-SEA CHART-ENGLAND-KENT-DOVER-MARGATE-SANDWICH-MOUNT & PAGE

(PCO) GK-251