Original copper engraving with the map of Roman London, "Londinium Augusta": the walled enclosure beside the Tamesis Flumen, with its gates, the roads, the fields and the Roman cemeteries lettered across the ground. From E. W. Brayley's Londiniana.
Original copper engraving with the map of Roman London, "Londinium Augusta": the walled enclosure beside the Tamesis Flumen, with its gates, the roads, the fields and the Roman cemeteries lettered across the ground. From E. W. Brayley's Londiniana.
Londiniana; or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis, by Edward Wedlake Brayley, was published in four volumes in London in 1829 by Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance & Co. The map reconstructs the layout of the ancient city by setting the Latin names over the medieval place names of the City.
Medium: Copper engraving
Date: 1829
Source: Londiniana, by E. W. Brayley, London, Thos. Hurst, Edwd. Chance & Co.
Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.0 in (16.1 x 10.2 cm)
Condition: Image clean and well printed; paper toned, the lower margin with small tears and losses at the edge