References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1665
- Sep
Blackheath
Map
The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:
- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
Open location in Google Maps: 51.466376, 0.008342
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First Reading
Michael Robinson • Link
Jan Wyck (Dutch, 1652-1700)
Distant view of London looking NW from Blackheath; view from top of a road which runs from Greenwich to Blackheath up the W side of Greenwich Park, to the left a ploughed field rising towards a low cliff, in the centre foreground a sportsman and his dog, on the right the paling of Greenwich park running up to a wooded bank on which a man is seated, in the distance the Thames and London. 1666
Brush drawing in brown and grey wash over graphite; on two conjoined sheets
http://www.britishmuseum.org/rese…
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Blackheath is at the bottom left of this segment of the J Cary Map
http://www.motco.com/map/81001/Se…