Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - A contemporary hand-coloured map of London

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Date:1572 - 1580 (c.)

Description:London: capital city of Shakespeare's England.

William Shakespeare came to London, England's capital city, about 1588. His career in the next twenty years was centred here, as he became the most popular playwright of the age. He found books and pamphlets of all kinds on the bookstalls around St Paul's cathedral churchyard, and also probably had access to the libraries of his patrons, such as the Earl of Southampton.

Full title: Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, [from Civitates orbis terrarum. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1572 - c.1580](hand-coloured)

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1570s

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail - decorative title panel

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1590s

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597]

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1610s

Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619 Map of the Americas - whole map, hand-coloured.

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