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Source Description
Plan of the Royal Exchange of London, showing goods traded and the country of origin of the traders.<br/><br/>We Are One: This print provides a large-scale depiction of the city’s Royal Exchange, the hub of commerce for the British Empire. In this building, people purchased and sold goods and spread news from around the world through conversations, books, and newspapers. The interior floor plan designates spaces for traders from the British colonies in America, Jamaica, and Barbados as well as European nations. Chesapeake tobacco planters and New England merchants depended on news and prices from the Exchange. The elevation documents the building’s Neoclassical façade, constructed after the first Exchange burned in the Great Fire of 1666.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
4m90fn374
label
An elevation, plan, and history, of the Royal Exchange of London
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
4m90fn374
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
An elevation, plan, and history, of the Royal Exchange of London
description
Plan of the Royal Exchange of London, showing goods traded and the country of origin of the traders.<br/><br/>We Are One: This print provides a large-scale depiction of the city’s Royal Exchange, the hub of commerce for the British Empire. In this building, people purchased and sold goods and spread news from around the world through conversations, books, and newspapers. The interior floor plan designates spaces for traders from the British colonies in America, Jamaica, and Barbados as well as European nations. Chesapeake tobacco planters and New England merchants depended on news and prices from the Exchange. The elevation documents the building’s Neoclassical façade, constructed after the first Exchange burned in the Great Fire of 1666.
date
["[1761]"]
year
1761
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_012249
creators
Donowell, John, active 1753-1786
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Royal Exchange (London, England)--Maps
Royal Exchange (London, England)--Pictorial works
Merchants--England
Marketplaces--England--London--Maps
England--Commerce
subjectsGeographic
England
Europe
London
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
England
city
London
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[London]
publisher
[publisher not identified]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
51.514248
schema:longitude
-0.093145
extent
1 map ; 32 x 23 cm
notes
Includes descriptive text and an illustration of the facade.
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no
dcId
4m90fn374
type
map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
863a2db867f0516b