Old Map of England & Wales in 1579 by Christopher Saxton - England, Wales, London yosemite map 1931 Visionaries in art

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with streets radiating from the Minster and the marketplace at the city's core

and the print is reproduced at high resolution to keep Lee's linework crisp

when industrial England was still taking shape

Old Map of England & Wales in 1579 by Christopher Saxton - England, Wales, London yosemite map 1931 Visionaries in artThis print reproduces Christopher Saxton's landmark map of England and Wales, first published in 1579 and widely regarded as the earliest printed survey to lay out the two countries together in such comprehensive detail. Saxton, often called the father of English cartography, worked county by county to plot towns, rivers and coastlines across the realm, so London appears anchored on the Thames alongside other emerging centres of the day such as York,