Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei with short tear

with short tear

2nd Duke of Albemarle

A quad royal poster version is illustrated by Leboff and Demuth (‘No need to ask

including ‘blood and guts’ Patton

Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei with short tearCartographically 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