Old Map of Norfolk in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Swaffham, Fakenham artistic land record This scientifically accurate depiction captures

This scientifically accurate depiction captures the bird’s natural behavior along the water’s edge

Originally created as a wartime illustration

and elegant typography of the original map

and industry carved out a distinct place in American history

Old Map of Norfolk in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Swaffham, Fakenham artistic land record This scientifically accurate depiction capturesThis map of Norfolk was published in 1665 by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu, part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the defining atlases of the Dutch Golden Age of mapmaking. Blaeu's workshop produced maps of a decorative quality rarely matched by English publishers of the period, using English surveys as their source material but engraving and hand colouring them in Amsterdam with the ornamental borders and cartouches