Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet E2 - London Bridge, Monument, Bank, Cannon Street, Borough Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED stylized waves

stylized waves

Each province border and canal route reflects the Dutch mastery of water management—a feat that reclaimed land from the sea and turned marshy deltas into lush farmlands

Whether as a personal keepsake

or photographs from a journey across the archipelago

a decade that would go on to empty much of its countryside through death and emigration

Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet E2 - London Bridge, Monument, Bank, Cannon Street, Borough Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED stylized wavesSheet E2 of Rocque's great survey sits directly over the ancient crossing point of the Thames, where London Bridge had carried traffic between the City and Southwark for six centuries by the time this plan was drawn in 1746. Positioned one column west of the Tower in the surveyor's twenty four sheet grid, E2 covers the financial heart of the City on the north bank and the district of Borough immediately opposite, making it one of the most densely