# Robert Morden artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-morden/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:03:43.728Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Maps and cartography, Engraving, Globes, Atlases and geographical publications

## About Robert Morden

Robert Morden was an English cartographer, mapmaker, engraver, globemaker, publisher, and bookseller associated with the commercial production of geographic material. Public authority records identify him as a cartographer, while bibliographic records connect his name with Atlas terrestris, Britannia, maps of England and individual English counties, and Geography anatomized. His recorded subjects also extend to Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Morden through historic maps, atlas material, and other geographical publications rather than through a conventional painting or sculpture market. His combination of mapmaking, engraving, publishing, and bookselling places his work within the practical commercial circulation of geographic knowledge. The collected sources establish this professional identity clearly, but they do not provide sufficiently explicit evidence for exact birth or death dates, and those dates should remain unasserted until confirmed by a stronger biographical record.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Robert Morden commonly include maps of England, English counties, Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, together with atlases and other geographical publications. Authority records specifically connect his name with Atlas terrestris, Britannia-related material, and Geography anatomized. Engraving and globe making also form part of his documented professional identity, although individual objects require careful attribution and publication-level identification.

## Market and appraisal context

The Appraisily input associates Robert Morden with 471 auction records, indicating a substantial body of catalogued market material, but the collected source pack does not include the individual lots. It therefore supports only broad categories such as maps, cartographic works, atlases, and bound geographical publications. A responsible appraisal should first determine the object's format, geographic subject, named publication, and relationship to an atlas or other volume, then compare those details with verified public sales of closely matching material. This source pack does not establish artist-specific effects for condition, edition, provenance, dimensions, or date, and it cannot support a price prediction without lot-level evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7347782
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018810
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/5230679/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15328436t
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morden
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-morden/