reflects the natural drama and storied heritage of New England’s shores
portraying a coastal lowland region where dikes
This carefully preserved blueprint of the past continues to fascinate historians and collectors alike
this print enriches any space—from quiet studies to public galleries—with its serene and contemplative beauty
when decorative county maps like this one were prized as a way of celebrating Britain's landscapes and coastal heritage
Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed reflects the natural drama andBy the time Sir William Petty's Irish county maps reached print in 1685, the fieldwork behind them was already three decades old. Petty had directed the Down Survey of the 1650s, an extraordinarily ambitious effort to measure the forfeited lands of Ireland parish by parish so that Cromwell's soldiers and creditors could be paid in acreage rather than coin. His heirs later gathered the surviving county drawings into the atlas Hiberniae Delineatio, and