AD 1561 · 16th century · London

Civitas Londinum (the Agas map)

Anonymous woodcut-map tradition

A bird’s-eye woodcut tradition makes early modern London searchable as streets, gates, buildings and river traffic.

Catalogue record

Cartographer	Anonymous woodcut-map tradition
Medium	Woodcut-derived bird’s-eye city view
Repository	London Metropolitan Archives
Custody	Held by the repository named above
Record stands for	A work or series, not one witness

Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.

date: The year recorded is for the lost original state of the woodcut. The impressions that survive are later, and the essay works from the University of Victoria digital edition rather than from any of them. Recording the impression the digital edition was made from, and dating this record to that impression instead of to the conjectured first state.