Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed when decorative county maps like

when decorative county maps like this one were prized as a way of celebrating Britain's landscapes and coastal heritage

This carefully preserved blueprint of the past continues to fascinate historians and collectors alike

this antique print captures the spirit of traditional fly fishing and pays tribute to the enduring craftsmanship of classic lure design

and anyone captivated by the ancient world

making it a truly engaging piece of wall art

Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed when decorative county maps likeBy the time Sir William Petty's Irish county maps reached print in 1685, the fieldwork behind them was already three decades old. Petty had directed the Down Survey of the 1650s, an extraordinarily ambitious effort to measure the forfeited lands of Ireland parish by parish so that Cromwell's soldiers and creditors could be paid in acreage rather than coin. His heirs later gathered the surviving county drawings into the atlas Hiberniae Delineatio, and