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Decorative map of Westmorland County, published in London by Robert Morden for Camden's Brittania, perhaps the most enduring of all works on Britain.
Folio county map showing Cumberland bordered by Northumberland, Durham, Westmorland, and Lancashire.
A decoratibve title cartouche appears upper left; a mileage scale in English miles is inset lower right. Boundaries, rivers, towns, and villages are clearly plotted, with hills rendered in profile and forested areas shaded. Degrees of latitude run across the top and bottom margins, and longitude is marked at the sides.
The Irish Sea—here named “The British Ocean”—is dotted with small sailing ships for decoration.
Robert Morden (d. 1703) was a British map and globe maker. Little is known about his early life, although he was most likely apprenticed to Joseph Moxon. By 1671, Morden was working from the sign of the Atlas on Cornhill, the same address out of which Moxon had previously worked. Most famous for his English county maps, his geography texts, and his wall maps, Morden entered into many partnerships during his career, usually to finance larger publishing projects.
