Parr, Nathaniel

Plans of Beijing and Hangzhou sit beside Anjouan, Kilwa Kisiwani and the forts of West Africa in maps engraved by Nathaniel ...

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Plans of Beijing and Hangzhou sit beside Anjouan, Kilwa Kisiwani and the forts of West Africa in maps engraved by Nathaniel Parr, an eighteenth-century British engraver working on Astley’s A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Dated 1745 and 1746, they give particular care to fortifications, trading settlements and harbour approaches. His prints add coastal views of Sierra Leone, Cape Coast and Senegal, together with illustrations of fruit, birds, animals and human activity, as the compilation moves freely between geography and natural history.

Plans of Beijing and Hangzhou sit beside Anjouan, Kilwa Kisiwani and the forts of West Africa in maps engraved by Nathaniel Parr, an eighteenth-century British engraver working on Astley’s A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Dated 1745 and 1746, they give particular care to fortifications, trading settlements and harbour approaches. His prints add coastal views of Sierra Leone, Cape Coast and Senegal, together with illustrations of fruit, birds, animals and human activity, as the compilation moves freely between geography and natural history.

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