Old Manuscript Map of the Netherlands by Bowen, 1810: Seven United Provinces, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, North Sea SDUK Lincoln and Fort Sumner draw

Lincoln and Fort Sumner draw the eye to stories of exile

1817: The Carlisle Canal opened

full colour and exceedingly rare map shows two of the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey)

cherish memories of travels from Sa Pa to the Mekong

their broad silhouettes outlined in confident strokes

Old Manuscript Map of the Netherlands by Bowen, 1810: Seven United Provinces, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, North Sea SDUK Lincoln and Fort Sumner drawThe Seven United Provinces with their dependences, drawn by Frances Bowen in 1810, distills a complex political and maritime realm into an elegant, intelligible whole. Its square composition and color coded provinces invite immediate orientation, while tidy labeling anchors the viewer in a Netherlands poised between old republican identities and Napoleonic reordering. The decorative clarity of early nineteenth century educational atlases is everywhere