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The River of Thames

Editorial history

01/01/12, CSG: Created page





Suggested links


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

See The River Tapti



To do


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



Images

View down river from Westminster, Hollar, 16XX


BOOK PLATE Hollar Nodate View Down From West BFAC Cat 1920 IArch DL CSG 020212.png



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


BOOK PAGE View Arundel House Hollar W Manual Topog Daniell W IA 1909 DL CSG 090112.PNG



River of Thames at London Bridge, London Magazine, 1743


BOOK ENGRAVING London Magazine 1743 Front Cover DL CSG 030112.PNG



River Thames from Bankside, Hollar, 1647


BOOK PLATE Hollar 1647 Pt View Lon Crop Plt 43 LCC Surv Lon Bank Vol 22 1950 IArch DL CSG 010212.PNG



London Bridge and River Thames from Southwark, Vischer, 1616


BOOK PLATE Vischer 1616 Lon Bri Ft LCC Survey Lond Bank Vol 22 1950 IArch DL CSG 010212.PNG



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


MAP DETAIL London To Canterbury Cany 1814 DL CSG 010112.jpg



Kent, Cany, 1814


MAP London To Canterbury Cany 1814 DL CSG 010112.jpg



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


MAP PLATE Kent ThamesDetailThe Epit Of Cty Hist Vol1 Greenwood C 1839 IntArch DL CSG 050112.png



Middlesex, Robert Morden, 1704


MAP PLATE Middlesex New Descrip & State Of E Morden R 1704 2ndED Betwpp46&47 DL CSG 010112.PNG



Essex, Robert Morden, 1704


MAP PLATE Essex New Descrip & State Of E Morden R 1704 2ndED Betwpp24&25 DL CSG 010112.PNG



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)[1]

(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)[2]

(4) 'London Bridge', Frontpiece, Vischer, 1616, in London County Council, Survey of London, vol. 22, Bankside (the Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark)[3]

(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"[4]

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[5]




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'


Suggested primary sources




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)
  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. 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)
  3. 'London Bridge', Frontpiece, Vischer, 1616, in London County Council, Survey of London, vol. 22, Bankside (the Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark)
  4. George Matthews Arnold, Robert Pocock, the Gravesend historian, naturalist, antiquarian, botanist, and printer (London, 1883), pp. 134-135
  5. 'Directions for the River Thames, from London to the Nore' in John Chandler, The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, pts. 1-3, (London, 1809), pt. 1, p. 6. See http://books.google.co.uk/ebooks/reader?id=a7QBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA6, viewed 03/01/12)