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Engraved title-page to William Camden's 'Britannia', 2nd edition (London, George Bishop and John Norton, 1607); below the title, a map of Britain, inscribed with the Latin names places and tribes; above the title, a cartouche depicting the figure of Britannia, with shield and spear, seated on a rock beside the sea; to the left of the title, a bearded and nude male figure with crown and trident, accompanied by various marine animals and a large fish wrapped around one leg; to the right of the title, a female figure holding wheat; bottom left, a ship; bottom right, a cathedral; bottom centre, a cartouche depicting buildings, baths, and Stonehenge. Engraving

Date
1607
Place
the British Isles
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,572 × 2,500 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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"print, title-page, map" (1607). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_title-page,_map_(BM_1896,1230.120).jpg

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