Interpreting maps of the rural landscape : an example from late sixteenth-century Buckinghamshire

Author

Bendall, Sarah

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Rural history. 1993, Num. 2, Vol. 4, 107-121, 5 ill.

ISSN

0956-7933

Abstract (en)

A series of maps of land in Buckinghamshire drawn by Erasmus Williams and accompanied by detailed documentation, ca.1590 (Oxford, New College), are interpreted as reflecting contemporary attitudes to the Crown, and the nature of surveying and mapmaking in late 16th c. Oxford.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- United Kingdom
• Williams, Erasmus, d.1608
• Cartography
• Buckinghamshire (GBR)
• Maps
• Oxford University, New College||Oxford (GBR)
• Great Britain
• 1500-1600
• Oxford (GBR)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Royaume-Uni
• Williams, Erasmus, m.1608
• Cartographie
• Buckinghamshire (GBR)
• Carte
• Oxford University, New College||Oxford (GBR)
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1500-1600
• Oxford (GBR)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940401-00341832

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