2: His 2nd wife continued the business after his death ;
1704 c. ; definitely earlier than 1709, in France
1762
London ?
French Huguenot émigrés, who moved to England with J. R. in 1709 ;
United Kingdom
map of London (begun in 1737 and published in 24 printed sheets in 1747) ; Carte de L'Angleterre et d'une Partie d'Ecosse (1752) ; map of Dublin (1756) ; Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England & Wales (1753) ; Rocque's Traveller's Assistant (1763) ;
cartographer to the Prince of Wales in 1751 ;
engraver ->Wenzel Hollar ; publisher John Garret ;
cartographical and topographical copperplate engraving ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rocque ;
C. J.Schüler: Die kartographierte Stadt (Paris 2011: 217f. & 220f.) ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere. Historische Seekarten (2007: 129) ;
born in France, but migrated to London, England; mostly known as a surveyor & cartographer, but also as surveyor & mapmaker, engraver & map-seller; active in London: A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753 he was employing ten draughtsmen
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