Regional Maps of England & Wales

ROAD from LONDON to BATH &c. N^o.4

The fourth plate from the series of eleven maps engraved for A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol...by Archibald Robertson. London, William Faden, 1792.

Archibald Robertson (fl.1777-1796) was a print-seller and drawing master trading from Saville Row and, from 1782, Charles Street St. James's Square. Robertson is known as a landscape painter and for his aquatints, his first aquatints were jointly published with well known watercolourist, Paul Sandby (c1731-1809). In the above work, the aquatint views are all unsigned but are almost certainly by Archibald Robertson. The maps are also unsigned by engraver or surveyor but Robertson is not known for surveying or line engraving.

A very good and uncommon map of part of the road from London to Bristol showing Reading, Twyford, Sonning, Shiplake, Wargrave, Hare Hatch, Ruscombe, Hurst, Burghfield, Theal, Calcot, Tidmarsh, Pangbourne, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Purley-on-Thames, Caversham, Binfield Heath, Shiplake, Harpsden.
Folds and some light creases but a clean map in fine hand colour.

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