and softly painted background create a lifelike and serene composition
produced just a few years after the war as the university city returned to something like its normal rhythm of undergraduate life
Sweeping lines and vibrant colors bring to life iconic locales like Yellowstone’s steaming geysers
Sailors will appreciate the precise references to buoys and hazards
resulting in a piece that is both a valuable historical document and an artful celebration of regional progress
Old Map of Kent in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Margate, Bromley, Canterbury, Maidstone, Tunbridge, Dartford Size:24x32 inch - UNFRAMED and softly painted background createWhat sets Joan Blaeu's map of Kent apart from the English county maps it was based on is the sheer decorative ambition of the Amsterdam workshop that produced it. Issued in Blaeu's Atlas Maior of 1662, with the well known 1665 edition following soon after, the map reworked Christopher Saxton's late sixteenth century survey of Kent into an engraving dressed with a scrolled cartouche, coats of arms, and a compass rose typical of Dutch cartography's