Hooker-Hogenberg Map/ Plan of Exeter / Isca Damnoniorum
Exeter is among the earliest provincial towns in England to boast a published map, although, as is normal in the Tudor period, it was more of the nature of a bird's eye view. We are indebted for this to John Hooker, the first Chamblerlain of Exeter, who commissioned a number of works relating to Exeter from London publishers, mostly compiled by himself, and which were often intended as new years' gifts. His map of Exeter was commissioned in London from the engraver Flemish engraver Remigius Hogenberg. This map formed the basis of all printed maps of Exeter for more than a century.
Copies of the map survive in three versions or states. State A shows a pair of dividers at the lower right of the plate. In state B these have been erased and in state C they have been replaced by a compass rose and the line of Holloway Street, leading to St Leonard's Church has also been moved to the north. This version is believed to be state B.
Copies of the map survive in three versions or states. State A shows a pair of dividers at the lower right of the plate. In state B these have been erased and in state C they have been replaced by a compass rose and the line of Holloway Street, leading to St Leonard's Church has also been moved to the north. This version is believed to be state B.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1958
- Collection Class
- Prints
- Medium
- engraving on paper
- Common Name
- Hooker-Hogenberg Map/ Plan of Exeter / Isca Damnoniorum
- Simple Name
- Inscription Transcription
- F C Newman Friday 23rd July 1948
- Period Classification
- Elizabethan (1558-1603)
- Production Town
- Production Date
- 1587
- Production Person Initials
- JohnRemigiusGeorg
- Production Person Surname
- HookerHogenbergBraun
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
