Christopher Greenwood
Christopher (1786–1855) and John Greenwood (1791–1840) were brother cartographers who produced large-scale maps of England and Wales in the 1820s. In 1818 they formed a partnership in London with sollicitor George Pringle and surveyor George Kemp. The business was highly productive at first, printing many county surveys, but later fell into financial trouble and closed in 1828.
Christopher Greenwood
Christopher Greenwood · Public domain
- Born
- 1786 · Gisburn.
- Died
- 1855
- Occupation
- geographer · cartographer · surveyor · map maker
- Languages
- English
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1786
Christopher Greenwood born at Gisburn.
1855
Christopher Greenwood died.
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Christopher was imprisoned for debt in 1834 and the brothers' printing plates were sold to pay their debts.
• 1818: Christopher Greenwood's Map of Yorkshire • 1818: Henry Teesdale’s Map of Yorkshire • 1828: Map of the county of York, made on the basis of triangles in the county, determined by Lieutenant Coll. Wm Mudge, Royal Artillery, F.R.S. and Captain Thomas Colby, Royal Engineers, in the Trigonometrical Survey of England, by order of the Honourable Board of Ordnance, and surveyed in the years 1815, 1816, & 1817, by C. Greenwood, Wakefield. Leeds, Robinson, Son & Holdsworth, Wakefield, John Hurst & C. Greenwood, 4 June 1817. • 1817–30: Large-scale maps of all the counties except Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire and Rutland • 1827: Greenwood's Map of London 1827 – from surveys in 1824, 1825 and 1826 • 1834: Atlas of the Counties of England
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Christopher Greenwood, born in 1786 in York and died in 1855, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
LONDON MAP: GREENWOOD, John Christopher: LONDON MAP: GREENWOOD, John Christopher: Map of London from Actual Survey Made in the Years 1824, 1825 1826. Published August 21. 1827, first edition. Contemporary hand colouring, linen backed with silk pipe trim and folding. 185 x 147 cm, with inset views of Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral. Housed in the original full leather box, VG From the Pa
Christopher Greenwood
NO RESERVE Yorkshire.- Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County of York, made on the Basis of Triangles in the County, determined by Lieut. Col. Wm. Mudge, county map in six sections, with calligraphic title, compass rose, and a table of explanation, engraved map with hand-colouring, each sheet approx. 610 x 1085 mm (24 x 42 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some offsetting, scattered spot
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- John Brian Harley. Christopher Greenwood, county mapmaker. 1962.
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