Old Map of Connacht in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Clare Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED Lawrence River

Lawrence River

Embrace the quiet elegance of the deer with this antique animal drawing that captures its gentle form and serene presence

is an extraordinary representation of one of the world’s most formidable birds of prey

Published by William Faden in 1801 and issued here in its updated 1809 state

legible engraving that made Faden's atlases the preferred choice of the period's travellers and merchants

Old Map of Connacht in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Clare Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED Lawrence RiverThis map of Connacht was produced by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu and published in 1665 as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the defining atlases of the Dutch Golden Age of cartography. Blaeu's workshop was renowned for the quality of its engraving and hand colouring, producing maps that, while based on English and Irish surveys, were finished in a distinctly continental decorative style with ornamental cartouches