Map of Madras, 1746 (Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India) 13°05'16"N 80°16'42"E

John Rocque (1704?-27 January 1762) (publisher) [top left, below each title:] Publish’d by John Rocque Chorographer to the / Late and Present Prince of Wales 1751. // Publié par I. Rocque Chorographe de S.A.R. Monsei.r. / le Prince de Galles 1751.
[bottom, below scale bar:] Publish’d according to Act of Parliament 1751. The Corner of Buckingham Street in the Strand.

Richard Benning (active 1743-81) (engraver) [bottom left, below edge of neatline:] R. Benning Sculp:

Subject(s)

Watermark: None

Condition: no fold lines; brown with age; printed on coarse paper

Scale: 1:7,350 approx. Scale bar: Scale of Feet [83 mm =] 2000.

31.6 x 46.0 cm (neatline)

34.0 x 50.8 cm (image)

34.4 x 52.2 cm (sheet; platemark cropped)

Printed title:

A Plan / of MADRAS and / FORT ST. GEORGE, / Taken by the FRENCH Commanded by / Monsieur Matré de la Bourdonnais. / On September the 21.^st 1746. // Plan / de MADRAS et du / FORT ST. GEORGES, / pris par les FRANCOIS, Commandes par / Mr. Matré de la Bourdonnais. / le 21 Septembre 1746. [top left, two titles in English and French, in two rectangular panels, one above the other]

Annotations:

George III heading: Madras 21 Sept.^r 1746.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, ink figures, cropped.]

George III catalogue:

Madras A Plan of Madras and Fort S^t. George taken by the French commanded by M. Matré de la Bourdonnais the 21^st. of Sept.^r 1746: published by Rocque, 1751.