John Speed
Artists
John Speed is best known for his county maps of Britain. They were incredibly accurate and very detailed. The maps still provide historians with a lot of information about early seventeenth Britain. The maps are also quite beautiful and Speed?s skill as an artist is shown is his drawings. Some of these illustrated books by other people, some of them formed vignettes, or scenes, in the corners of the maps.
 

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