Dedicated to beautiful old prints and maps to be enjoyed on their own or as part of your interior design
I explained in Engraving and Photography: continuity or disruption? the reasons for excluding from my collection any coloured prints. Even though they may catch an unsophisticated viewer’s eye, the manual addition of colours actually diminishes the value of prints, both in terms of accuracy and in aesthetic terms (for me…
This spectacular bird’s eye view or plan of Paris of early 18th century, popularly known as Plan Turgot (by the name of the Paris prévôt des marchands who ordered it), is probably the most famous plan of Paris, or any other city for that matter, ever made. It was the…
