Hidden amid the pen strokes are echoes of daily life in a region influenced by African
this sheet takes in the whole region around Glasgow
The illustrations are meticulously detailed
The artistic rendering of streets
providing a vivid window into an age when local identities and regional character played central roles in everyday life
Old Map of Cornwall in 1722 by Robert Morden - Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, Bodmin Moor, Land's End Size:A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED Hidden amid the pen strokesNot every mapmaker of the period worked first as a surveyor and second as a tradesman; Robert Morden ran that equation the other way round. Trading at the sign of the Atlas in London, Morden sold maps, globes, and instruments to a growing market of gentlemen and travellers, an instinct that produced both his 1676 set of geographical playing cards, each printed with a small county map, and his full set of English and Welsh county maps for the 1695