Somerset Maps

25x19 cm

ENGLAND DISPLAYED EDITION

SOMERSET-SHIRE Drawn from an Acurate Survey By T Kitchin G

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 Somerset appeared in the issue for May 1749. 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. 

Somerset 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. Chubb Printed Maps of Somerset p.53