1799 Clement Cruttwell Map of Belgium or the Netherlands

Belgium-cruttwell-1799
$200.00
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1799 Clement Cruttwell Map of Belgium or the Netherlands

Belgium-cruttwell-1799

$200.00

Title


Belgium, or the Netherlands.
  1799 (dated)     14 x 15.5 in (35.56 x 39.37 cm)

Description


A fine 1799 map of Belgium and parts of the Netherlands by the English map publisher Clement Cruttwell. Focuses mainly on the modern day Belgium. Includes the Dutch regions Schowen, Brabant, with parts of Holland. Features the County of Flanders, Austrian Brabant, Bishop of Leige, County of Hainau, County of Namur, French Flanders, Dutchy of Luxemburg, Limburg, County of Artois and Austrian Hainau. Mountains and other topographical features shown by profile. Outline color and fine copper plate engraving in the minimalist English style prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawn by Clement Cruttwell and published in the 1799 Atlas to Cruttwell's Gazetteer.

Cartographer


Clement Cruttwell (1743 - August 5, 1808) was an English book and map publisher active in Bath and London in the late 18th and early 19th century. Cruttwell was born the son of William Cruttwell, a gentleman of Wokingham, Berkshire, England. As a young man Cruttwell was educated to be an Anglican Reverend and consequently maintained a lifelong interest in religious matters. Throughout his life, he published a number of religious works and geographical gazetteers including several focused on the British Isles and one dedicated to France. Though little is known of Cruttwell today, he was highly regarded in his own time. In his obituary, a period publication, The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure describes Cruttwell as

a gentleman whose various literary performances, for labour, extent, and utility, have rarely been equaled, and, when regarded as the productions of an unassisted valetudinarian, have perhaps never been surpassed.
Cruttwell was also a known correspondent of George Washington to whom he sent his own translation of the Holy Bible, which Washington kept in his personal library until his death. More by this mapmaker...

Source


Cruttwell, C., Atlas to Cruttwell's Gazetteer, 1799.    

Condition


Very good. Original centerfold. Platemark visible. Some offsetting. Moderate overall toning. Blank on verso.