MRP: The River of Thames

The River of Thames

Editorial history

01/01/12, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See Blackwall
See Gravesend
See Greenwich
See Limehouse
See Redrith
See Woolwich

See The River Tapti

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To do

(1) Clarify sourcing of the Cany (1814) map images

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Images

View down river from Westminster, Hollar, 16XX

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View of London from the top of Arundel House, Hollar, 16XX

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River of Thames at London Bridge, London Magazine, 1743

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River Thames from Bankside, Hollar, 1647

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London Bridge and River Thames from Southwark, Vischer, 1616

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North Kent and River of Thames, Detail from Kent, Cany, 1814

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Kent, Cany, 1814

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North Kent and River of Thames, Detail from Select Map of Kent, Greenwood, 1839

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Middlesex, Robert Morden, 1704

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Essex, Robert Morden, 1704

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Image credits and copyright information

(1) Plate 6, 'View down river from Westminster', Wenceslaus Hollar (London, XXXX), reproduced in Burlington Fine Arts Club, ‘Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London with some contemporary furniture’ (London, 1920)

(2) Plate, 'View of London from Arundel House', Wenceslaus Hollar (London, XXXX), reproduced in Walter V. Daniell; Frederick J. Nield, Manual of British topography, a catalogue of county and local histories, pamphlets, views, drawings, maps, etc. connected with and illustrating the principal localities in the United Kingdom (London, 1909), betw. pp. 134 & 135
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from Internet Archive copy

(3) Cropped 'Part of Hollar's View of London', Plate 43, Vischer, 1616, in London County Council, Survey of London, vol. 22, Bankside (the Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark)

(4) 'London Bridge', Frontpiece, Vischer, 1616, in London County Council, Survey of London, vol. 22, Bankside (the Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark)

(5) Front cover, London magazine and monthly intelligencer (London, 1743)
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Google free E-Book edition

(6) Detail of north Kent and river of Thames from 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)
- Out of copyright map
- Sourced from XXXX

(7) Map, 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)
- Out of copyright map
- Sourced from XXXX

(8) Detail from LH side of 'A select map of Kent' from C. Greenwood, An epitome of county history, vol. 1, Kent (London, 1839), plate before preface
- Out of copyright book and map
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

(9) Map, Morden, Robert, 'Middlesex,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 45 & 46
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

(10) Map, Morden, Robert, 'Essey,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 24 & 25
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

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Notes

Description of River Thames, Robert Pocock, 18XX

"Monday, 27th. [YEAR?] Went from Chatham by coach to (Upper Blue Bell) and had from the top of the house an extensive view, as we saw the road (plainly) going up Shooter's Hill (about twenty-four miles distant), and Lord Petrels house, near Brentwood, Essex (thirty miles off), the towns of Southend and Leigh in Essex (about twenty-five miles), the town of Sheerness with Minster in Sheppy, the Nore and ships sailing down the Swin; to the south Cox's Heath; and south-west a fine prospect of a campaign valley with the hills of Surrey....Slept at the Swan"

The Hope, past Gravesend, leaving the Thames

The Hope is the first reach after Gravesend reach as a ship makes its way out of the Thames

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Suggested image sources

Small scale

'Fig. 5: A chart of the estuary of the River Thames by John Seller based on the survey by Sir Jonas Moore', in N.J.W.Thrower (ed.), The Compleat plattmaker: essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1978), p. 144

Thames at London

'A General View of the City of London and the River Thames,' plate 2 from 'Views of London', 1794, a painting by Thomas Bowles

General

Farrington, J, A history of the river Thames (XXXX, 1810)
- Note: "John and Joseph Boydell's landmark in English topography, A History of the River Thames. Engraved by Stadler, J. C."
- Illustrations of interest include:

• 'Rochester bridge, and castle'
• 'Maidstone'

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Suggested secondary sources

Chandler, John, The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, pts. 1-3, (London, 1809)
Greenwood, C., An epitome of county history, vol. 1, Kent (London, 1839)
- A select map of Kent (double page plate before preface)

XXXX, XXXX, A History of the River Thames (XXXX, 1795)