Old Map of England & Ireland in 1605 by Abraham Ortelius - Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets unique Athens wall art Each carefully plotted block echoes

Each carefully plotted block echoes with the clang of elevated trains

gates and principal streets to a numbered list beside the panel on the city's own government and parish divisions

instead he adapted earlier Elizabethan surveys

and this map highlights the key channels and depths necessary for safe passage

created by John Speed - widely regarded as the finest British cartographer of the Stuart era

Old Map of England & Ireland in 1605 by Abraham Ortelius - Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets unique Athens wall art Each carefully plotted block echoesAbraham Ortelius was the great Flemish cartographer whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in 1570, is widely regarded as the world's first true atlas, gathering maps from across Europe into a single consistent, methodically organised volume. This 1605 sheet combines a map of England and Ireland with an elaborate genealogical family tree of English and Irish monarchy, a format Ortelius and his engravers used to appeal to readers as interested