'Spittle Fields & places adjacent'. Spitalfields 1720 map
Artist/engraver/cartographer: Published by John Strype from a plate originally published by John Stow. Provenance: "A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year 1598, by John Stow, citizen and native of London .. Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged .. by John Strype, MA, a native also of the said city", London, printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and , MDCCXX. Type: Copperplate engraved map. This fabulous map shows the "Hamlet of Spittlefields", along with the "Hamlet of Bethnal Green" in the upper right part of the map. The upper part of Bishopsgate/Shoreditch High Street runs along the left hand edge of the map. Spitalfields market is marked.
Size: 4425px × 3586px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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