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COLLECTION NAME:
Charting The Nation
Record
Work Record ID:
0042328
Shelfmark:
WD.3.B/30
Holding Institution:
National Library of Scotland
Title:
FIFAE VICECOMITATVS,
Imprint:
[Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1654]
Creator:
Blaeu, Joan (b.1596, d.1673)
Creator Role:
Publisher
Creator:
Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
Creator Role:
Surveyor
Creator:
Gordon, Robert (b.1588, d.1661)
Creator Role:
Mapmaker
Creator:
John, Earl of Lindsay
Creator Role:
Dedicatee
Creator:
Gordon, James (b.1615?, d.1686)
Creator Role:
Associated Person
Date:
1654
Description:
A relatively small scale map showing all of Fife and both shores of the Firths of Forth and Tay. Fife is shown in considerable detail and with greater accuracy than any other map of Scotland in Blaeu's Atlas Novus. The map locates some 430 more places than appear in the two maps by Timothy Pont which cover Fife and were published in the same Atlas. The great density of place names necessitated the use of very small cartographic signs to locate those places. Robert Gordon's manuscript drafts for this engraving, one of which survives in the National Library of Scotland, were probably compiled in 1642. The engraving was made in Amsterdam and first published in Blaeu's Atlas Novus, in 1654.
Work Type:
Printed map/plan
Measurement:
50.8 x 40.2cm (1' 8" x 1' 3 13/16")
Material:
Paper
Technique:
Hand coloured
Subject Place:
Fife
Subject Place:
Firth of Tay
Subject Place:
Forth, Firth of
Subject Place:
Scotland
Reference:
Skelton, R.A., County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, [v.1:] 1579-1703, 1970, pp.97-109.
Related Work Title:
Joannis Blaeu, Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus. Pars quinta. Amstelaedami: Ioannem Blaeu, M DC LIV.
Related Work Notes:
Host Item
Rights Statement:
© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
Repro File Type:
Derivative JPEG
Repro File Size (bytes):
41063710
Repro Title:
FIFAE VICECOMITATVS, [3 of 3]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
5680 x 7072
Repro ID Number:
0042328c-0002.tif
Repro Old ID Number:
00000445
Repro Description:
Text to verso (left)
Repro Capture Date:
25/05/2000

FIFAE VICECOMITATVS, [3 of 3]

FIFAE VICECOMITATVS, [3 of 3]