The view of London featured on the title-page of Henry Holland's 'Herwologia Anglica' represents two theatres, both distinctly circular, on what are known to have been the sites of the Globe and Bear Garden.
The inset view of London printed in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' represents two theatres: the first Globe, shown here as circular, and a second theatre, also roughly circular, which is most likely the Bear Garden.
The panoramic view of London in Norden's 1600 map depicts all four Bankside theatres as polygonal. As the evidence suggests that at least one of these theatres was round -- and the inset map depicts all four as such -- Shapiro contends that we must…
The London map first published in John Norden's 1593 Speculum Britanniae reappears as an updated inset piece in his panoramic map of London, produced sometime between March and October 1600. This later version offers a view of the Swan, as well as…
John Norden's 'Speculum Britanniae' (1593) offers a version of the well-known cartographer's map of London, engraved by Pieter van de Keere. The map offers views of both the Bear Garden and the Rose theatre, respectively labelled 'The Bear howse' and…
Radulph Agas's map of London, 'Civitas Londinum, ca. 1590,' offers an early view of the Bear Garden. Although each displays its own peculiarities of detail, similarities between this, William Smith's 'Particular View of London (1588), and Braun and…
Braun and Hogenberg's map of London (c1572) -- published in 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum,' a collection of engraved views of the world's cities -- offers an early view of the Bear Garden. Although each displays its own peculiarities of detail,…
Wenceslaus Hollar's undated sketch of the 'West part o[f] Southwarke toward Westminster' -- likely preliminary to his celebrated 'Long View' etching (1647) -- provides a contemporary birds-eye view of the Beargarden and second Globe.