2583 x 3023 px | 21,9 x 25,6 cm | 8,6 x 10,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1815
Lieu:
London
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
'Map of the various sewers under the Commission for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the county of Middlesex'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: J. Bacon, sculp, 131, Holborn Hill. Provenance: "Some account of the proposed improvements of the western part of London, By the formation of the Regent's Park, the New Street, the new sewer &c", by J. White, the second edition, with additions. London. Printed for Cadell & Davies, Strand; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row; Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street; and w. Reynolds, 137, Oxford Street. 1815. Type: A scarce early 19th century copperplate map showing proposed improvements to Regency London. Original hand colouring. The map shows the sewerage system of London as it was in the early 19th century. Early Commissioners of Sewers were solely concerned with land drainage and the prevention of flooding, not with the removal of sewage in the modern sense. In 1531 an Act of Sewers was passed which set out in great detail the duties and powers of Commissioners and governed their work until the 19th century.