Cumberland

Description

Printed map. "By J. & C. Walker". Visual scale [8.5 mm=16 English miles]. In lower right margin, "No. 7." Bottom right corner includes "Reference" to wards, western and eastern divisions, places of election, and polling places. Colours are used to represent grassland, railways, and also used to outline the boundary of "Mr. Salkelds Cumberland". Black dots indicate "places of meeting of foxhounds". Probably from Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas..., [1850]. Described in Chubb, Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, entry DXXXII, p. 350: "Lithographic reproductions of the forty-two county maps in J. and C. Walker's British Atlas, first issued in 1837, prepared especially to show the 'Hunts,' with coloured boundaries. Between the title and imprint, on the title-page, is the list of maps, and following the title-page a sheet with: 'Reference to the Hunts.' The maps still bear the imprint of Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co., but without date."
Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.