In August 2020, the Bristol Record Society received a generous donation from Anistatia and Jared Brown to sponsor a new element to our Digitisation Initiative: the high-resolution digitisation and electronic publication of 17th-18th century topographical prints of Bristol. The prints come from the collection of the Society of Merchant Venturers and are being made available on a Creative Commons Licence (CC BY). Any use can be made of the images, in whole or part, provided users attribute the Society of Merchant Venturers and the Bristol Record Society in any publications. The digitisation was carried out by Jamie Carstairs, University of Bristol.
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The South East Prospect of the City of Bristol (London, 1734) [80 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown.
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The North East Prospect of the City of Bristol (London, 1734) [80 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown.
James Millerd, Map of Bristol: 1728 version (Bristol, 1728). [63 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown.
While this map describes itself as being the product of the seventeenth-century Bristol cartographer, James Millerd, this is actually an updated version of the map, produced 55 years after the 1673 original. While the 1728 version takes the original map as its template, it incorporates many new buildings built in the intervening period. Details of the map allow users access to the highest resolution images we could produce. This includes:
Nine photographs, taken in a 3×3 grid of the main map: top left, top middle, top right, middle left, middle middle, middle right, bottom left, bottom middle, bottom right.
Border images: All Saints Church & Tolzey, Bristol Bridge, Castle, Cathedral, Cathedral Great Gatehouse, Corn Market, Custom House, Great House, Great House in Redcliffe, Guildhall, High Cross, Hotwells, St Mary Redcliffe church, Merchant’s Hall, Prospect of Bristol, Prospect of Bath, Queen’s Crest, Royal Crest, Severn map, St Stephen’s church, Tolzey.
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