Old Map of the English Channel in 1729 by Price - London, Bristol, Cherbourg first map of Essex offering a complete perspective of

offering a complete perspective of the world

this artwork combines artistic beauty with botanical accuracy

each corner of the map speaks to the fusion of agriculture

from iconic bridges to moated perimeter gates

Old Map of the English Channel in 1729 by Price - London, Bristol, Cherbourg first map of Essex offering a complete perspective ofCharles Price, a London bookseller and publisher who belonged to both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, produced this chart of the English Channel in 1729. It was engraved for an ambitious venture titled Atlas Maritimus, or, A New Sea Atlas, conceived to address what Price himself called the great want of a good sett of sea charts available to English mariners of the day. The project stalled abruptly when Price was