Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei A quad royal poster version

A quad royal poster version is illustrated by Leboff and Demuth (‘No need to ask

corresponding to a key on banners carried by putti in the upper corners of the image

colourful Scottish financier John Law won the confidence of the Duke of Orleans (then Regent of France)

including ‘blood and guts’ Patton

Spreading out across the continent they are stinging the crazed

Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei A quad royal poster versionCartographically Speed follows Mercator, but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders originally represented James VI and I and his family, including a young Prince Charles. The royal family was burnished from the copper plate during the Interregnum and replaced with the commoners seen here: a Scotch man and woman, and a Highland man and woman (notable as early depictions of tartan). John