Oxfordshire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Speed was an historian and cartographer from Farndon in Cheshire. He published the theological works ‘A direction to finde all those names expressed in that large table of genealogies of scripture, lately gathered’ (1595) and ‘A Clowd of Witnesses: and they the Holy Genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures’ (1616). He also produced an atlas titled ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’ (1610), which was the first attempt at an English atlas on a grand scale and the first atlas to include a set of county maps, consistently showing territorial divisions. By 1625 he had lost his sight. He died at the age of 77.

Places

England, Oxfordshire

Subjects

map (as Subject), globe, lion, man, coat of arms, crown, unicorn

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

John Speed (1551/2 - 1629)

Title

Oxfordshire

Date

1605

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 41.00 cm, width: 53.80 cm

Acquisition

Presented by Sir Nigel Ronald, January 1954

GAC number

15803