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A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade
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Uniform Title
Chorographia Britanniae. Manuscripts
Title
A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.
Production
Great Britain, 1724.
Physical Description
1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Notes
Bound in contemporary red morocco, with elaborate gold tooling, in imitation of the French fanfare style. Binding by same unknown hand as another ms., of 1715, presented to George I at Windsor.
In English.
Summary
"Thomas Badeslade, an engineer and surveyor, drew this remarkably beautiful series of English county maps in 1724. According to the title page, Francis Negus (1670-1732) intended to present the work to the king for a planned royal tour of the country. Negus, a former soldier and courtier, served under William I in Flanders before succeeding his father-in-law as a member of Parliament for Ipswich in 1717. That same year he was appointed to a prestigious court position as Commissioner for Executing the Office of the Master of the Horse. Although it appears he would have had the opportunity to present the atlas to the king, there is no evidence that he ever did. Certainly the tour never took place. The thirty-nine county maps are based on surveys published by Herman Moll, a Dutch cartographer who had moved to England in 1680. Badeslade's drawings were later engraved by William Henry Toms and published in 1742 under the title “Chorographia Britanniae” (also in Mellon's collections and now at the Center). Mellon's manuscript is most likely the "pocket book" mentioned on that work's title page, "first drawn and compiled ... by order and for the use of His late Majesty King George I." Toms's work was a considerable success, perhaps one of the two or three bestselling county atlases published in the eighteenth century. It was the first county atlas to be truly pocket size and immediately found a substantial and hitherto unexploited market."--Elisabeth Fairman. Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 307, no. 138, N5220.M552 P38 2007+ OVERSIZE (YCBA) PC2007
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 08, 2009
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Atlases.
Fanfare bindings (Binding)
Maps.
Manuscript maps.
Ink drawings.
Watercolors.
Also listed under
BAC G1808 .B32 1724 Exhibited in: Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, April 18, 2007-July 29, 2007)
BAC G1808 .B32 1724 Exhibited in: Wilde Americk: Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, September 27, 2001-December 30, 2001)
BAC G1808 .B32 1724 Exhibited in: Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
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