An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth.
John Ogilby was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this. Ogilby's most-noted works include translations of the works of Virgil and Homer, and his version of the Fables of Aesop.
Britannia is the Latin name for Britain, used as the female personification of Britain.
William Alexander was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. The hallmarks of his work, usually executed in watercolours, were clearness and harmony of colour, simplicity and taste in composition, grace of outline, and delicacy of execution. He accompanied the Macartney Embassy to China in 1792. Prints of his work were reproduced from engravings. One of his works was used to illustrate Cadell & Davies' Britannia depicta.
Joseph Farington was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist.
Letitia Byrne (1779–1849) was a British engraver.
John Byrne (1786–1847) was an English painter and engraver. He came from a family of artists and he lived with his sister Elizabeth Byrne who also exhibited her landscapes.
William Byrne (1743–1805) was a British engraver.
George Farington (1752–1788) was an English artist.
Emanuel Bowen was a Welsh map engraver, who achieved the unique distinction of becoming Royal Mapmaker to both to King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France. Bowen was highly regarded by his contemporaries for producing some of the largest, most detailed and most accurate maps of his era. He is known to have worked with most British cartographic figures of the period including John Owen and Herman Moll.
John Pye was a British landscape engraver.
Samuel Middiman (1750–1831) was an English engraver.
Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (1785–1857) was an English engraver. He was known for his portraits of theatre people. He also painted, and engraved works of Correggio and Van Dyck. Woolnoth was engraver to Queen Victoria. His work was also included in Cadell and Davies Britannia depicta.
The Leeward Islands Station originally known as the Commander-in-Chief at Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands was a formation or command of the Kingdom of Great Britain and then the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed at English Harbour, Antigua, Leeward Islands. It existed from 1743 to 1821.
Cadell and Davies was a publishing company established in London in 1793. The business was formed when bookseller and publisher Thomas Cadell the elder (1742–1802) bequeathed his business to his son Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836) and the elder Cadell's apprentice William Davies. Cadell & Davies shut down after Davies death in 1819. Cadell continued in business until his own death in 1836.
William Woolnoth (1780–1837) was an engraver. He was one of the engravers whose work was included in Cadell and Davies Britannia depicta. He did engravings of work by artists such as Thomas Mann Baynes, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale and Thomas Allom. He also did the engravings for Edward William Brayley's The ancient castles of England and Wales. He did the engravings for a book that he published in 1816 on the cathedral church of Canterbury According to Oxford Reference he also did engraving work in Spain. He was also one of the engravers for The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books.
Major Samuel Barenger was a British engraver also known by his signature M.S. Barenger and S Barenger. His work was included in Cadell and Davies' Britannia depicta. One of his engravings was included in an 1809 publication featuring the architectural antiquities of Great Britain. According to the Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators published by Oxford University Press he was active in London and exhibited in the Suffolk Street Gallery in 1823. He was also part of an 1821 exhibition in Soho Square. His works dates from 1807 until the 1830s. Two of his engravings based on his brother's paintings were included in the 1824 "Annals of Sporting".
Charles Pye Jr. was a British engraver from Birmingham. He illustrated topographical subjects, and published a Holy Family after Michelangelo.
Britannia is the title of each of three atlases created in England the late 16th and mid 18th centuries, describing some or all of the British Isles. These are the books published by William Camden and Richard Blome and John Ogilby. Of the three, Ogilby's is probably best known because it was the first to use measured distances.
