Old Map of Sussex in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Worthing, Brighton, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis Size:50x70 cm - UNFRAMED while carefully numbered soundings signal

while carefully numbered soundings signal shifting sandbars that once bedeviled unprepared boaters

a keen walker who knows the Derbyshire Dales well

As a highly detailed piece of wall art

This choice of medium highlights the map’s refined contrasts

capturing the essence of a city renowned for its healing waters and cultural sophistication

Old Map of Sussex in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Worthing, Brighton, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis Size:50x70 cm - UNFRAMED while carefully numbered soundings signalSussex appears on this 1665 plate as a long coastal county stretching between the Weald and the Channel, engraved by Joan Blaeu's workshop for his Atlas Novus alongside the rest of England's counties. The map's decorative border and hand applied colour place it firmly in the Dutch Golden Age tradition of cartography, where accuracy and ornament were expected to sit side by side on the same sheet. The South Downs run across the map as a band of open