A map illustrating Elizabethan London

WELLER, Edward.

London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
London, Cassel, Petter and Galpin, 1863. Coloured. Lithograph, two sheets conjoined, total 460 x 1240mm.

A reduced version of one of the first plans of London, a woodcut tenuously attributed to Ralph Agas, of which there are only three known examples. It is a map-view in much the same as the Braun & Hogenberg, with the buildings shown in profile, but is seems to be slightly later, as St Paul's Cathedral lacks the spire lost to lightening in 1561.
Published in the 'Weekly Dispatch Atlas'.


Stock ID : 19006