Tuesday 20 November 2018

Antique London Street Map 1862
























Extensive antique street map of London with decorative border including vignettes of The Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral, Crystal Palace, National Gallery, Buckingham Palace, British Museum, Bank of England, Mr. Wyld's Model of Earth in Leicester Square, London Bridge, General Post Office, Her Majesty's Theatre.

Titles, keys and scales in French and German. A woodcut print originally published for the Great Exhibition of 1851, there were several subsequent versions.

Good selection of antique maps of London here

Thursday 15 March 2018

18th Century Chart of Spanish Armada by John Pine

Spanish Armada off Plymouth Sound by John Pine

























Title: Plate IV ‘De Valdez’s Galleon springs her Foremast, and is taken by Sir Francis Drake. The Lord-Admiral with the Bear and Mary Rose, pursue the Enemy, who are in the Form of a Half Moon.’
Publication: ‘The Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords’.

Date: June 24, 1739

Description: Spanish Armada engaged by the British in Plymouth Sound with Sir Francis Drake in HMS Revenge. From The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets, in the year 1588. Engraved by John Pine, Drawn by C. Lempriere. London.