| Maker(s): | Hargreaves, Thomas (1774-1847)
| | Culture: | British
| | Title: | Map of the Staffordshire Potteries & Newcastle, Including their Vicinities, Shewing the Limits of the Boroughs, Parishes, Townships, etc.
| | Date Made: | 1832
| | Type: | Map
| | Materials: | engraving on paper with hand coloring, mounted on linen
| | Place Made: | Great Britain: Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem
| | Accession Number: | HD 2022.12
| | Credit Line: | Museum Collections Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Hargreaves’ map of the Staffordshire Potteries is a very large (62 x 48 inches) map that is cut in sections and applied to linen. It is foldable, making it easier for transporting in a deep pocket or satchel. This map was much more detailed than previous maps, not only did it delineate public buildings and churches, but it also marked pottery factory sites with individual pottery ovens with circles. His map was the first trigonometrical survey of the county. Comparing the Hargreaves map to earlier maps by Yates and Thomas Allbut shows how much the North Staffordshire Potteries had expanded as a successful manufacturing district. There are not many publically available copies - examples reside in the Staffordshire Record Office, Keele University, and the British Library. The Potteries. Hargreaves (Thomas), Map of the Staffordshire Potteries & Newcastle, 1832. The Potteries. Hargreaves (Thomas), To the Most Noble George Granville, Marquess of Stafford K. G. &c. &c. The Zealous Promoter of the Interests of the Several Towns and Liberal Patron of their Public Institutions, This Map of the Staffordshire Potteries & Newcastle, Including their Vicinities, Shewing the Limits of the Boroughs, Parishes, Townships, etc., Engraved from a Minute Trigonometrical Survey, is with permission dedicated..., Burslem, 1st May 1832, large engraved map with contemporary outline coloring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title cartouche, table of explanation and compass rose, slight staining, marbled endpapers, 1580 x 1220 mm Thomas Hargreaves was a portraitist and miniature painter; b. Liverpool 1774; d. in Liverpool in 1847; entered Royal Aacademy Schools in 1790; apprenticed to the painter Sir Thomas Lawrence 1793-95, assisted him until c. 1798; Hargreaves exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798, 1808/9 and 1819; settled in Liverpool by 1807; he was a founder member of Liverpool Academy in 1810.
Tags:
maps; industries; pottery Link to share this object record:
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