page_title: Britannia Depicta
section_title: Cadell & Davies editions
hierarchical_section_title: Britannia Depicta / Cadell & Davies editions
caption_attribution_description: General View from Matlock High Tor in derbyshire. Artist:Joseph FARINGTON Title:General View from Matlock High Tor Publication Title Britannia Depicta, Part VI, Derbyshire Date published 15 May 1817 Medium Coloured engraving Lettering below image: [left] Drawn by J. Farington Esq.r R.A. [right] Engraved by John &amp; Letitia Byrne. / Matlock Church. / Published May 15, 1817, by T. Cadell &amp; W. Davies, Strand, London Published T. Cadell &amp; W. Davies, Strand, London, 15 May 1817 Acquisition Purchased from Sotheby's by GAC, 22 February 1977 Number 13030
context_page_description: Britannia Depicta was an illustrated road atlas for Britain. It was printed in numerous editions over many decades from 1720 into the 19th century and updated with engravings by many artisans who worked from drawings of other artists. It featured strip maps.
  The atlas was based on the earlier work of John Ogilby who published the first British road atlas in 1675. Britannia Depicta was printed in 1720 by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen's firm Bowen & Owen. It was one of Bowen's earliest works.
  A road atlas, it contains two hundred and seventy three road maps along with drawings of landmarks and miniature county maps of each of the counties of England and Wales. It followed on John Ogilby's original with updated style of historical and heraldic detail. It was an unusual feature of the atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page, and this resulted in a handier-sized book.
context_section_description: Cadell & Davies published its own editions of the Britannia Depicta atlas over many years, with accompanying descriptions by Samuel Lysons. Engraved plates for their Britannia Depicta are dated 1803–1818. 
  The Quarterly Review of 1816 reported it was ordered along with Magna Britannia.
  Landscapes by Joseph Farington were included in Cadell and Davies' six-volume "modernisation" of the illustrated atlas. His contributions include topographical Views in Cornwall (1814) and other views. He also depicted Devon for a 7th edition and had his drawings engraved but they were never published.
caption: View from Matlock High Tor from a painting by Joseph Farington
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