Maps Gallery

Map of the Shangani Patrol and Major Wilsons Last Stand

Vintage engraving of a Map of the Shangani Patrol and Major Wilson's Last Stand. The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol), comprising 34 soldiers in the service of the British South Africa Company, was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3, 000 Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War in 1893

© duncan1890

Volcanic and Hurricane Charts; Craters; and Antarctica Engraving

Engraved Illustrations of Volcanic and Hurricane Charts; Craters; and Antarctica from Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art, Published in 1851. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

© Craig McCausland

1850 1859, 19th Century, 19th Century Style, 2015, 476324832, 66864, 78279, Arrangement, Art, Art And Craft, Art Product, Big Island, Big Island Hawaii Islands, Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, Cartography, Chart, Crater, Diagram, Drypoint, Engraved Image, Engraving, Etching, Europe, Geology, Globe Man Made Object, Globe Navigational Equipment, Graph, Hawaii Islands, History, Horizontal, Hurricane Storm, Illustration, Image Created 1850 1859, Image Created 19th Century, Italy, Map, Metal Ore, Mountain, No People, Old, Organization, Organizations, Pacific Islands, Physical Geography, Plan, Print, Rock Strata, Science, Stratification, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain South Africa, Tide, Topography, Victorian Style, Volcanic Crater, Volcanic Landscape, Volcano, Weather, Western Cape Province, Wind, Woodcut, World Map

A View of the Cape of Good Hope and A Plan of the Town of the Cape of Good Hope and its Environs

XJF439210 A View of the Cape of Good Hope and A Plan of the Town of the Cape of Good Hope and its Environs, published 1795 (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Two perspectives of the Cape of Good Hope, showing what is modern day Cape Town, South Africa; The first a view over Table Bay upon which are labelled The Town, The Castle (The Castle of Good Hope), The Devils Mount called also Wind Hill, Charles Mount and Crown Hill (today known as Devil's Peak), The Sugar-loaf (today known as Lion's Head Mountain) and The Lion's Rump (now called Signal Hill); The second image is a plan of the Cape, showing Table Bay, the town, the Dutch star shaped fort as well as the surrounding mountains; The scale is given in French Toises, a unit of measurement that orginiates in pre-revolutionary France; The views are said to have been taken by Mons Bourset in December 1770 and printed in London by William Faden on Novemeber 25th 1795; At the time that the view was taken the Cape of Good Hope was under the control of the Dutch East India Company but in 1795, the year that this image was published, British forces took control of the Cape;); English, out of copyright

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