The British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane, titled: Imperial Federation, Map of the World Showing The Extent of the British Empire in 1886. The decorative map shows the British Empire in red, and published as a supplement to a London magazine, “The Graphic”. The elaborate borders are filled with allegorical figures celebrating the extent of the empire, with the slogans ‘Freedom’, ‘Fraternity’ and Federation’ above the map. It seems that after commissioning Crane to draw the map to celebrate Quee

Explore Abraham Ortelius’s famous map of the northern Atlantic regions titled: Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip. This antique map is from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas and shows Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and parts of North America in great detail. The map also shows many mythical islands: the islands of Hy Brasil & st Brendan from Celtic mythology, Drogeo believed to represent Newfoundland, Frisland which is just off the coast of Iceland, and Groclandt. The