John_Speed_Wales.jpg

Summary

John Speed : John Speed's map of Wales wikidata:Q22912348 reasonator:Q22912348
Artist
John Speed (–1629) wikidata:Q1245028 s:en:Author:John Speed
John Speed
Description British cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death circa 1552
date QS:P,+1552-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
29 July 1629
Location of birth/death Farndon London
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artist QS:P170,Q1245028
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Title
John Speed's map of Wales, 1610
Publisher
George Humble Edit this at Wikidata
Object type map / print Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Français : Carte du Pays de Galles , par John Speed , 1610.
Cymraeg: Map o Cymru gan John Speed, 1610
English: Map of Wales by John Speed , 1610.
Shows Welsh counties and parts of adjoining English counties, including much of Herefordshire and Shropshire. Identifies towns, larger villages parish churches, rivers and diagramatic representation of higher hills and mountains. Compass rose in Irish Sea bearing the Arms of the Princes of Wales at its centre, the sea shaded to resemble watered silk in the style of Hondius.
The sides of the maps are flanked by twelve views of the County Towns of Wales with smaller insets of the four Cathedral Cities of Bangor, St Asaph, Llandaff and St. David's set into each of the map's corners.
Text verso printed upside down on pages 99 and 100 of "The generall description, and severall divisions of the Principality of Wales." Sign Ggg....sold by John Sudbury and George Humble in Popes head allye - cum privilegio. 1610.
Date 1610
date QS:P571,+1610-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 360 × 330 mm (14.17 × 12.99 in)
institution QS:P195,Q666063
Place of publication London Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Scale (1:576.000)
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Source/Photographer
This image is available from the National Library of Wales
You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue
Permission
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Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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Other versions Cropped Inserts of principal towns:

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