The map of the village of Belchamp St. Paul is a late 16th-century plan-terrier drawn up by the English surveyor Israel Amyce to document the assets of the manor belonging to St Paul's Cathedral in London. The map, in ink and watercolour, depicts the rural Essex village in an elongated plan, with its divided fields, roads, ponds and the manorial complex with the parish church, identified by an alphabetical key. It is a typical estate map: it does not aim at geometric precision, but at the legal and visual description of the properties, useful for administering rents, agrarian rights and boundaries in the context of the agrarian changes of Elizabethan England.
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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