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Chester
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/173 · Item · No date
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Two views of notable buildings in Chester, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Chester, Foregate Street, Old Houses'; 'Bedford'; endorsed '368'; item torn, cannot be measured
  • 'Bishops Lloyd's Palace, Chester (A.D. 1615)'; 'J.V.' [monogram]; '14507'; [before 1880]; 20.3 x 13.4 cm
Bedford, Francis, 1816-1894, photographer
Crayford
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/181 · Item · No date
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Garden suburb.

  • 'View of Crayfordway from Maiden Lane as it will appear when completed'; 'W. Ratcliffe'
  • [Floor plan of a cottage]; Anon.

'67' endorsed in manuscript in ink on top seal [Cities Committee, 'War and Peace', No. 67]

[Probably William Watts Ratcliffe, architect]

Ratcliffe, William Watts, architect
Cumberland
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/182 · Item · 1787 and no date
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Three sheets with maps of Cumberland, and towns in Cumberland, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Cumberland By John Cary, Engraver'; 'London: Published as the Act directs, September 1st 1787, by J. Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, No. 188 the corner of Arundel Street Strand'; John Cary; 1787; colour; engraving; 21.3 x 26.5 cm on 22.3 x 27.4 cm sheet; [from 'Cary's new & correct English Atlas: Being a new set of County Maps from actual surveys [...]' (London, 1817) (Fordham, Herbert Georg, John Cary [ ] (Folkestone: Dawson & Sons, 1976), pp. 23-24)]
  • 'Cumberland'; 'Drawn by R. Creighton.'; 'Engraved by J. & C. Walker'; no date; Black and white, some colour; 'XV'. endorsed in top right corner
  • [Three maps of cities and their environs]; 'Carlisle'; 'White Haven'; 'Cochermouth'; 'Drawn by R. Creighton'; 'Engraved by J. & C. Walker'; no date: black and white, some colour; 'XVI' endorsed in top right corner
Dartmoor
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/184 · Item · 1892
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Ivybridge (Dartmoor Forest)'
'Ordnance Survey of England'
'Sheet 349'
'Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton [...]'
'Published by Colonel Sir C.W. Wilson, [...] Director General, December 1892'

Anon.

Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile

Deal and Sandwich
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/185 · Item · 1640
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

View of the Spanish, Dutch and English Fleets off Deal, comprising two prints mounted on individual backings, mounted together on one backing.

'Vera Et Exacta Delineato Classium Hispanicae, Anglicae, et Holladicae, prout in Freto Brittanico iuxta Dealam Castrum et Sandvicum in primo congressu, ante prelium se ostenderunt, Anno 1640'
'Do. Cornelio Boll. Ant[u. si] Navium Pictori celeberrimo, huiq[ue] rei simul spectatori [s]uo Amititiae ergo, Wencellaus Hollar Bonem, delineator, D.D.D.'
'W. Hollar fecit'
'Deal v [and] Sandwich' endorsed in manuscript in ink at bottom margin.

[Pennington, 'A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-77' (Cambridge: University Press, 1982), No. 548]