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A New Description of Kent   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar

Print made by: Charles Whitwell (map)
After: Anthony van Dyck (view of Rye)
After: Philip Symonson (surveyor)
Published by: Peter Stent
Title
A New Description of Kent
Description
English: Map of Kent, with views of Rye and Dover in the upper left. and upper right. respectively. 1659
Engraving and etching on two plates side by side, on two conjoined sheets of paper
Date 1659
date QS:P571,+1659-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 530 millimetres (overall)
Height: 67 millimetres (view of Dover)
Height: 60 millimetres (view of Rye)
Width: 150 millimetres
Width: 266 millimetres
Width: 787 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1853,0611.123
Notes

The only work by Hollar is the two views, of Rye and Dover, the rest being by Whitwell; Hollar's drawing of Rye (Sprinzels 367, Huntington Library) was made after an original by Van Dyck (Vey 288, Pierpoint Morgan Library III 178); according to Pennington, this state appeared in the 1664 edition of Thomas Phillipott's 'Vallare Cantianum, or Kent surveyed and illustrated' (not the 1659 edition).

The map itself was first issued in 1596.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1853-0611-123
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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