Old Map of Kent in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Margate, Bromley, Canterbury, Maidstone, Tunbridge, Dartford Size:24x32 inch - UNFRAMED Sailors will appreciate the precise

Sailors will appreciate the precise references to buoys and hazards

is a beautifully detailed representation of the region’s rich maritime history

and softly painted background create a lifelike and serene composition

and diaspora stories that shaped global ties

Old Map of Kent in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Margate, Bromley, Canterbury, Maidstone, Tunbridge, Dartford Size:24x32 inch - UNFRAMED Sailors will appreciate the preciseWhat sets Joan Blaeu's map of Kent apart from the English county maps it was based on is the sheer decorative ambition of the Amsterdam workshop that produced it. Issued in Blaeu's Atlas Maior of 1662, with the well known 1665 edition following soon after, the map reworked Christopher Saxton's late sixteenth century survey of Kent into an engraving dressed with a scrolled cartouche, coats of arms, and a compass rose typical of Dutch cartography's