ICHNOGRAPHY OF CHARLESTON, South Carolina

Petrie, E. (Edmund)

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

Blake, William Stadden, 1747?-1814

Tunno, Adam

Phoenix Fire-Company of London

1790

At the Request of Adam Tunno Esq. for the use of the PHOENIX FIRE-COMPANY OF LONDON, Taken from Actual Survey 2d August 1788 by Edmund Petrie.

Published 1.st Jan.y 1790 by E Petrie N.o 13 America Square

Scale approximately 1:4,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Charleston (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Charleston
• Charleston (county)
• North and Central America
• South Carolina
• United States

1 map : copperplate engraving ; 49 x 69 cm

• No known copyright restrictions.
• This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

• Scale "400 Feet to one Inch" at lower centre.
• Oriented with north to the right of the map.
• With a numbered (1-77 and 78-99) and lettered (A-X) key at either side of the map identifying streets and buildings of note.
• With the engraved emblem of the Phoenix Fire Company showing "PROTECTION" at centre left by "Blake Sc. Change Alley".
• Believed to be the earliest fire insurance map published - Ristow.
• A reduced version of the map was later published in Charleston (Wheat and Brun, Maps and charts published in America before 1800, 599).
• Titled "Ichnography of Charleston from actual survey, 2d of August 1788, by Edmund Petrie; 1790" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.