this antique print captures the spirit of traditional fly fishing and pays tribute to the enduring craftsmanship of classic lure design
this print enriches any space—from quiet studies to public galleries—with its serene and contemplative beauty
when decorative county maps like this one were prized as a way of celebrating Britain's landscapes and coastal heritage
It's an ideal birthday or Christmas gift for a keen sailor or walker
It shows the county as a patchwork of ancient hundreds and market towns rather than the industrial conurbation Birmingham and Coventry would become within a generation
Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed this antique print captures theBy 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