Images Dated 17th December 2019

Cartouche on W. Mayos Map of Barbados, 1722, (1944). Creator: William Mayo

Cartouche on W. Mayo's Map of Barbados, 1722, (1944). A New & Exact Map of the Island of Barbadoes in America. According to an Actual & Accurate Survey. Made by William Mayo; Approved by the Royal Society & Authorized by His Majesty's Royal Licence'. Inscription with stylised floral decoration including dolphins. Map in the King's Topographical Collection, the first large-scale survey of the island carried out by civil engineer and cartographer William Mayo, in the British Library, London. From "British Maps and Map-Makers", by Edward Lynam. [Collins, London, 1944]

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A Hansen, first officer on the Knivsberg, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers

A Hansen, first officer on the Knivsberg, 1898. Portrait of a German crew member using compasses and parallel rulers to plot the course of the SS Knivsberg through the South China Sea. On the table is a copy of "The China Sea Directory", volume II, 3rd edition, [1889]. From "Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers. [Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1898]

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German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, wood mosaic and embroidery, (1898). Creator: Unknown

German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, wood mosaic and embroidery, (1898). Fig 1: Wall-painting from the bath-rooms in the Fugger-house at Augsburg. Figs 2, 3 and 5: Wall-painting in the knights hall of the Trausnitz at Landshut. Fig 4: Ceiling-painting, ibid. Fig 6: Wood inlaid work from the cover of a little chest. Fig 7: Embroidered border on a linen cover'. Plate 69 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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