Old Map of Staffordshire in 1611 by John Speed - Stafford, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED and Daugavpils

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Each winding street evokes echoes of grand patrons who championed legendary figures like Michelangelo

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Herman Moll arrived in London from continental Europe in the late seventeenth century and built a career as one of the most prolific engravers and publishers of maps in early Georgian England

Old Map of Staffordshire in 1611 by John Speed - Stafford, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED and DaugavpilsThis print reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Staffordshire, one of the county surveys engraved by Jodocus Hondius for Speed's landmark English atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. When Speed drew this map, Staffordshire spanned a wide swathe of what we now think of as the West Midlands and the Staffordshire Moorlands, long before the Potteries or the Black Country existed as we know them today. Look closely and you'll spot Stafford,