Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei engraved by John and Charles

engraved by John and Charles Walker

Theatrum Europaeum and the Topographia Germaniae

colourful Scottish financier John Law won the confidence of the Duke of Orleans (then Regent of France)

with short tear

This map of Zara and Sebinico on the Croatian coast is from the second series of maps engraved for the Epitome by Philip Galle

Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei engraved by John and CharlesCartographically Speed follows Mercator, but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders originally represented James VI and I and his family, including a young Prince Charles. The royal family was burnished from the copper plate during the Interregnum and replaced with the commoners seen here: a Scotch man and woman, and a Highland man and woman (notable as early depictions of tartan). John