page_title: Richard Newcourt (cartographer)
section_title: Architectural drawings and the map of London
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Newcourt (cartographer) / Architectural drawings and the map of London
caption_attribution_description: English: City of London.
context_page_description: Richard Newcourt was an English topographical draughtsman and cartographer.
context_section_description: Newcourt was a friend of Sir William Dugdale, and drew some views of religious houses, which were engraved for Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. He later drew a map of London which was to become the most important one of the city executed before the Great Fire. It was engraved  by William Faithorne the Elder and published  in 1658 as An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof, Together with ye Burrough of Southwark And all ye Thorough-fares Highwaies Streetes Lanes and Common Allies wthin ye same Composed by a Scale, and Ichnographically described by Richard Newcourt of Somerton in the Countie of Somersett Gentleman. The map was a large one, printed on four sheets and measuring more than  five feet across.  Although drawn as a "view map," it offers little information about individual buildings, the representations being largely conventional. It became extremely rare; for much of the 19th century only one copy was known, in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, but during the 1850s a second copy was discovered, and a facsimile published.
caption: Map of London; William Faithorne (engraver), Richard Newcourt (draughtsman)
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