Suffolk Maps

20x15 cm

KITCHIN. HOGG EDITION.

SUFFOLK Drawn from an Actual Survey w^th. Improvem^ts. By T.Kitchin, Geogra^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 appearing one at a time at irregular intervals between 1747 and 1763, the map of Suffolk appearing in the issue for January 1748. 10 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. 

Good clean example in neat later hand colour and generous margins from an edition by Alexander Hogg.