Rocque, John

John Rocque's maps preserve the streets, gardens and fields of Georgian London in exceptional detail. Rocque, a French-born ...

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John Rocque's maps preserve the streets, gardens and fields of Georgian London in exceptional detail. Rocque, a French-born surveyor and map seller who died in 1762, published his great London plan in 1746 and a large survey of Berkshire in 1761. The London sheets reach from the City and Westminster into Middlesex, Surrey and the Thames Valley, locating churches, lanes, riverside districts and the fields around villages later swallowed by the metropolis. The Berkshire survey follows Windsor, Wallingford, Hungerford and the country towards Oxford within the county's historical bounds. The group also includes later reproductions after Rocque, among them sectional London sheets and twentieth-century reprints, distinguished from eighteenth-century impressions by their printing dates.

John Rocque's maps preserve the streets, gardens and fields of Georgian London in exceptional detail. Rocque, a French-born surveyor and map seller who died in 1762, published his great London plan in 1746 and a large survey of Berkshire in 1761. The London sheets reach from the City and Westminster into Middlesex, Surrey and the Thames Valley, locating churches, lanes, riverside districts and the fields around villages later swallowed by the metropolis. The Berkshire survey follows Windsor, Wallingford, Hungerford and the country towards Oxford within the county's historical bounds. The group also includes later reproductions after Rocque, among them sectional London sheets and twentieth-century reprints, distinguished from eighteenth-century impressions by their printing dates.

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