Viewing Event Record: Radulph Agas's map of London, 'Civitas Londinum, ca. 1590,' offers an early view of the Bear Garden

Abstract

Radulph Agas's map of London, 'Civitas Londinum, ca. 1590,' 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 Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 London map (published in 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum,' a collection of engraved views of the world's cities) 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 images antecedent to the Braun and Hogenberg, and Agas maps (73).

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1633 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: circa 1590 (Source of claim: transcription)

Venues

Name
Bear Garden

Event Type

  • image
  • map
  • playhouse context