Antwerp – home to van Dyck, Brueghel and Rubens
The legacy of the seventeenth century in London
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini)
Plan of Nagasaki from Bellin’s ‘Petit Atlas Maritime
“A Rag and Famish affair”
Carte d’or
Waterloo sunset
