Art

Plan of the Temple of Solomon. The courtyards are filled with figures engaging in prayer, and a scene of a public stoning. The plan is topped with a decorative title cartouche as well as a sumptuous heraldic crest. "From the seventeenth century onwards various works were issued which dealt with the ancient world, such works were very popular. Perhaps the one with the most quaint and decorative series of maps is that in Thomas Fuller's Pisgah's Sight of Palestine" (Tooley: Maps and Mapmakers, p. 104) Copper engraving. Later colour. Size: 34 x 30 cm.