The British Monarchy

Counties drawn as bird's-eye landscapes rather than flat maps make these sheets from The British Monarchy among the most dis...

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Counties drawn as bird's-eye landscapes rather than flat maps make these sheets from The British Monarchy among the most distinctive of eighteenth-century county views. Engraved under the Bickham name, the work combined geographical description with decorative lettering, and the county maps here, dated 1754, show Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. Each title gives the county's direction from London, so the viewer is oriented to the capital before looking across the county itself.

Counties drawn as bird's-eye landscapes rather than flat maps make these sheets from The British Monarchy among the most distinctive of eighteenth-century county views. Engraved under the Bickham name, the work combined geographical description with decorative lettering, and the county maps here, dated 1754, show Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. Each title gives the county's direction from London, so the viewer is oriented to the capital before looking across the county itself.

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