Old Map of the North Sea and Atlantic in 1575 by Abraham Ortelius - Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia, Frisland heritage home accent as fresh waves of immigrants

as fresh waves of immigrants forged vibrant cultural enclaves across the city’s west and south sides

Hang it in a home office or dedicated gallery space to inspire thoughtful appreciation of the sacrifices and hopes carried along these waters

close to the crossing points that once carried travellers between Kent and the capital

recording the rural pattern of the county before the railways and later building booms changed it for good

the surveyor John Rocque and the engraver John Pine carried out one of the most ambitious mapping projects of the eighteenth century: a plan of London

Old Map of the North Sea and Atlantic in 1575 by Abraham Ortelius - Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia, Frisland heritage home accent as fresh waves of immigrantsThis striking chart of the North Sea and North Atlantic was engraved by the great Flemish Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius and included in his 1575 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, widely regarded as the world's first modern atlas and the single most important collection of world maps produced in the sixteenth century. Ortelius worked from Antwerp, compiling and standardising the best available charts of his era into one authoritative