The Province of Connaugh

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Original antique copper engraving, beautiful hand colored. Interesting map of the province of Connaugh with an inset map of Galwaye in the lower right corner. In the upper left is a beautiful cartouche with a lion and a unichorn holding the coat of arms by the British monarchy. In the lower left corner sit two putti holding a banderole that is curved around a dividers. Below is the mileage scale. A second pair of putti is located in the upper right corner, in the middle a compass rose, below the Privilegio. John Speed ​​(1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologist and historian with roots in Cheshire. The son of a London commoner and tailor, he left his family's profession to take up the task of compiling and revising the history, topography and maps of the kingdoms of Great Britain to represent the union of their monarchies in the person of Kings James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and help of the leading antiquarians of his generation. He drew on the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others and improved them, being the first to insert the hundred boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town plans they contain. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His biblical genealogies were also officially associated with the first edition of the King James Bible. He is one of the most famous English cartographers. (Wikipedia)