🏴 🏴 "Hand-drawn map of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton in 1579." #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #England #Wales #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #C16th #16thCentury #PublicDomain @histodon @histodons
Attribution: Christopher Saxton, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglia_Atlas.jpg
@bibliolater @histodon @histodons -- sorry to be that guy, but this is a printed map, with hand-applied water color.
@rmathematicus @bibliolater well, no. It’s a we
All map compiled from the maps in Saxton’s 1579 atlas, but the map itself not in the atlas … unless it’s the one-sheet, then all bets are off
@mhedney @bibliolater Exactly that map, but differently coloured, is the first map in my facsimile copy and the introduction by William Ravenhill says it should be there! It has the index to the atlas in the upper left corner
@bibliolater @mhedney The hand drawn is wrong but the description states that the map is taken from Saxton’s atlas