Old Map of England & Ireland in 1605 by Abraham Ortelius - Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets unique Athens wall art showcasing lighthouses

showcasing lighthouses

with much of the surrounding land still open fields and hillside beyond the built-up city

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

instead he adapted earlier Elizabethan surveys

Old Map of England & Ireland in 1605 by Abraham Ortelius - Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets unique Athens wall art showcasing lighthousesAbraham 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