Viewing Event Record: Braun and Hogenberg's map of London offers an early view of the Bear Garden

Abstract

Braun and Hogenberg's map of London (c1572) -- published in 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum,' a collection of engraved views of the world's cities -- offers an early view of the Bear Garden. Although each displays its own peculiarities of detail, similarities between this, William Smith's 'Particular View of London (1588), and Radulph Agas's 'Civitas Londinum, ca. 1590', suggest all three maps derive from a source dating back to 1560 or earlier, possibly by Anthony von Finden (Dawson, 99-100). Cartwright attributes the source 'two adjoining copper plates depicting Moorfields . . . which form part of the larger, contemporary, lost view of London, 1553-59,' and which seems to provide antecedent images for the Braun and Hogenberg, and Agas maps (73).

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: circa 1572 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: circa 1572 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Venues

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Bear Garden