Devon Maps

18x21 cm

UNCOMMON EDITION FROM "ENGLAND DISPLAYED"

DEVONSHIRE, Drawn from the best Surveys, Maps, Charts, &c. and Regulated by ASTRON^L. OBSERVAT^NS. By T.Kitchin Geog^r.

Engraved by Thomas Kitchin for publication in The London Magazine by Richard Baldwin. The magazine was published monthly between 1st May 1732 and 1st July 1783, the county maps issued one at a time at irregular intervals between 1747 and 1763, the map of Devon appeared in August 1750. Ten of the maps appeared in England Displayed…London, S. Bladon et.al. 1769. The complete series were re-issued under various titles including Boswell's Antiquities by Alexander Hogg from 1786 to 1798.

Thomas Kitchin (1719-1784), one of the foremost engravers of his time, was apprenticed to Emanuel Bowen in 1732 and married his daughter, Sarah, at the end of his apprenticeship in 1739. His works include the map of Scotland by Elphinstone, maps for Geographia Scotiae, the London Magazine and The Large English Atlas working with his father in law Emanuel Bowen. 

Devon was one of ten Kitchin maps that appeared in England Displayed in 1769 and this example is from that work. 
Good clean example in neat later hand colour.


Ref. Batten & Bennet Printed Maps of Devon 34.2