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Description: | Coloured engraving. To the lower left of this large-format map of the county of Somerset two men, who have just carried a woman in a sedan chair, wait as she alights from her compartment.
The Royal Manor of Cheddar is mentioned in lettering to the far right of the map: ‘Chadder [sic] near Axbridge is noted for excelent [sic] Cheese made there, not Inferior to the best Parmesan.’
This map was made between 1750 and 1760 and published as part of the Large English Atlas, drawn and engraved by Emanuel Bowen and his son-in-law Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784). Each of the maps which formed the atlas were relatively large in scale and included illustrative vignettes and paragraphs of text, describing the towns and economic activities of the county.
Bowen’s maps were seen as the best examples of cartography of the time and he was instrumental in developing maps from merely functional objects, to minor art forms in themselves. The success of his designs was substantiated by the numerous editions published.
This is one of 20 similar maps by Bowen, acquired by the Government Art Collection in 1949. | Subjects: | cartouche sedan chair map | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Emanuel Bowen | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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