Attractive plan and prospect of London

By HOMANN, Johannes Baptist, 1740

Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Königl: Gros-Britannisch Haupt und Residentz Stadt London. Edirt von Johann Bapt. Homanns, Kayserl Geographi seel erben in Nürnberg.

British Isles London

Author: HOMANN, Johannes Baptist
Publication place: Nuremberg
Publication date: c. 1705
Physical description: Double-page engraved map, fine original full-wash colour, inset views of the Palace of Whitehall, and the Royal Exchange, prospect of London from Southwark below.
Dimensions: 506 by 600mm (20 by 23.5 inches).
Inventory reference: 1517

Notes

Attractive plan and prospect of London.

To the upper left of the plan is view of the Palace of Whitehall — the royal residence in the seventeenth century; to the upper right is a view of the Royal Exchange, which had been rebuilt by Edward Jarman, after the previous one had been destroyed in the Great Fire. Below left is a list of streets, churches and public buildings. The City of London is highlighted in red. Underneath the plan is a fine prospect of the city listing 63 places of interest.

Bibliography

Howgego 51b.
- Howgego, J. (1978). Printed maps of London, circa 1553–1850. Folkestone: Dawson.

Biography

Johannes Baptist Homann (1664–1724)

Homann, a German geographer and cartographer, though educated as a Jesuit and destined for an ecclesiastical career, converted to Protestantism and then worked as a notary in Nuremberg. He founded a publishing business there in 1702, and published his first atlas in 1707, becoming a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the same year. He was appointed Imperial Geographer to Charles VI in 1715, and produced his great work, the Grosser Atlas uber die ganze Welt, the following year. Homann was well placed to take advantage of the decline of Dutch supremacy in cartographic publishing, and he became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany. After his death, the company was continued by his son Johann Christoph. When Johann Christoph died in 1730, the company continued under the name of Homann Heirs until 1848.

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Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Königl: Gros-Britanisch Haupt und Residentz Stadt London edirt von Iohann Bapt. Homanns Kayserl: Geographi seel: Erben in Nürnberg