| Surveyor | Petrie, E. (Edmund) |
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| Former owner | George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 |
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| Donor | George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 |
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| Contributor | Blake, William Stadden, 1747?-1814 |
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| Contributor | Tunno, Adam |
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| Contributor | Phoenix Fire-Company of London |
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| Date | 1790 |
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| Scale | Scale approximately 1:4,800 |
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| Language | English |
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| Location | British Library |
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| Collection (local) | British Library Collection |
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| Subjects | - Charleston (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
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| Places | - Charleston
- Charleston (county)
- North and Central America
- United States
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| Extent | 1 map : copperplate engraving ; 49 x 69 cm |
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| Terms and License | - No known copyright restrictions.
- This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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| Notes | - Scale "400 Feet to one Inch" at lower centre.
- Oriented with north to the right of the map.
- With a numbered (1-77 and 78-99) and lettered (A-X) key at either side of the map identifying streets and buildings of note.
- With the engraved emblem of the Phoenix Fire Company showing "PROTECTION" at centre left by "Blake Sc. Change Alley".
- Believed to be the earliest fire insurance map published - Ristow.
- A reduced version of the map was later published in Charleston (Wheat and Brun, Maps and charts published in America before 1800, 599).
- Titled "Ichnography of Charleston from actual survey, 2d of August 1788, by Edmund Petrie; 1790" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
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