Old Map of the Isle of Skye in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Portree, Dunvegan, Raasay Size:A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED Saxton's survey plots Romford and

Saxton's survey plots Romford and Dagenham along the road running east out of London toward the coast

General Roy's Military Survey would not reach the Highlands for another sixty years

By honoring its era’s distinctive style

where every brushstroke was dedicated to capturing the majesty and detail of the natural world

shifting sea ice

Old Map of the Isle of Skye in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Portree, Dunvegan, Raasay Size:A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED Saxton's survey plots Romford andThis reproduction reproduces an exceedingly rare 1665 map of the Isle of Skye, created by the master Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu from his workshop in Amsterdam and originally published as part of his celebrated Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, one of the most ambitious atlas projects of the Dutch Golden Age. Skye, the largest and most northerly of the major islands in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, was a challenging subject for seventeenth century surveyors,