Details for Rocque, John

Full name: Rocque, John

This person or thing (agent) has been used 20 times within our collections systems.

As a maker of objects: 20 times.

Biographical note

French/British print publisher, fl.1736-1762
Huguenot surveyor who came to England before 1734 and was the author of maps and plans of private gardens, d. 1762

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13yrs ago

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Atlas de Rocque

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Conservator: Brockman, James (bookbinder)

A plan of London on the same scale as that of Paris : in order to ascertain the difference of the extent of these two rivals ... = Plan de Londres, &c. sur la même echelle que celui de Paris : afin de constater la difference en grandeur de ces deux rivals ... / by J. Rocque Chorographer to His Majesty in the Strand, London 1762 with new improvements to the year 1766.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Publisher: Sayer, Robert
Publisher: Bowles, Carington
Engraver: Parr, Richard

A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

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A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Bourough of Soutwark, and the Contiguous Building : With All The New Roads That Have Been Made on Account of Westminster Bridge and the New Buldings and Alterations to the Present Year MDCCLV Engraved From An Actual Survey Made By John Rocque ... "; Rd. Benning engraved this Plan ; R.W. Seale engraved the Letters.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Publisher: Pine, John
Publisher: Tinney, John
Publisher: Bowles, Thomas III
Engraver: Seale, Richard William
Engraver: Benning, Robert

An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round; begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to act of Parliament = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster, et bourg de Southwark / by John Rocque ; engrav'd by Richard Parr, and printed by W. Pratt.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Engraver: Parr, Richard
Printer: Pratt, W. (printer)

A plan of the cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the contiguous buildings / from an actual survey, taken by John Rocque, land-surveyor, and engraved by John Pine.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Publisher: Pine, John
Publisher: Tinney, John

To Martin Folkes Esqr. President of the Royal Society This Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings is humbly Inscribed by his most humble Servants John Pine and John Tinney; Isaac Basire engraved the Plan, R.W. Seale the Letters.

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The traveller's companion, or, The post roads of England and Wales : with the distances in measured miles by the late John Rocque, chorographer to the King.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Publisher: Laurie & Whittle

A General map of the Post Roads of Europe wherein all the post stages with their distances are particularly Expressed = Carte Général des Postes de l'Europe : Dans laquelle on à Tracè Toutes les Routes et Marquè Tous les Lieux ou la Poste est Etablie by John Rocque, Topographer to the King ; J. Gibson sculpt.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Engraver: Gibson, John (cartographer)
Publisher: Laurie & Whittle

A General map of the Post Roads of Europe wherein all the post stages with their distances are particularly Expressed = Carte Général des Postes de l'Europe : Dans laquelle on à Tracè Toutes les Routes et Marquè Tous les Lieux ou la Poste est Etablie by John Rocque, Topographer to the King ; J. Gibson sculpt.

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Engraver: Gibson, John (cartographer)
Publisher: Laurie & Whittle

Rural landscape with, at right, a shepherd and shepherdess with seven sheep; houses in the background

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

A New Book of Landskips. Pleasant & useful for to learn to draw with out a Master

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

Landscape with a thatched cottage with a man chopping wood

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

Rural landscape with a man on horseback and a herd of sheep on a road leading up to a large building

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

Rural landscape with, at right, a shepherd and shepheress with seven sheep; houses in the background

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

View of a farmyard with two men handling large wheelbarrows in the foreground

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste (Attributed)
Publisher: Rocque, John

Rural landscape with a thatched cottage and picket face to left; on the right, a man leaning on a spade talking to a seated woman

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

Rural landscape with four fishermen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

A New Book of Landskips

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

Landscape with a thatched cottage with a man chopping wood

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Chatelain, Jean Baptiste
Publisher: Rocque, John

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