This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
. Ferdinand Arsenius (active 1573-1628) was an engraver of both scientific instruments and maps. He appears to have been the son of the celebrated Louvian master, Gualterus Arsenius, with whom he made several instruments between 1573-80.
The throne comp
1573
National Maritime Museum
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio (The Americas or the New World, newly described). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. This hemispherical map shows North
1573
National Maritime Museum
Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense (new map of the most flourishing kingdom of England, by Humphrey Lloyd of Denbigh). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573.
1573
National Maritime Museum
Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar: Insularum descriptio (England, Scotland and Ireland, otherwise known as the British Isles). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperpl
1573
National Maritime Museum
Asiae Nova Descriptio (a new description of Asia). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. The map is drawn on a cordiform projection. Japan and the adjacent coast of
1573
National Maritime Museum
Cambriae typus auctore Humphredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritano (map of Wales by Humphrey Lloyd of Denbigh. Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. The bar scale, wi
1573
National Maritime Museum
Eryn. Hiberniae Britannicae Insulae Nova Descriptio. Irlandt (Ireland). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. North at 90 degrees. Scale approximately 1:1,000,000. B
1573
National Maritime Museum
Flandria. Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. This map of Flanders is drawn in an oval frame with north at 22 degrees. Scale 1:400,000. The bar scale is in small,
1573
National Maritime Museum
Galliae regni potentiss: nova descriptio. Joanne Joliveto auctore (the most powerful kingdom of France, newly described by Jean Jolivet). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate
1573
National Maritime Museum
Hollandiae antiquorum Catthorum sedis nova descriptio, auctore Jacobo a Daventria (A new description of Holland, the seat of the Caths in ancient times, by Jacob van Deventer). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, publis
1573
National Maritime Museum
Portugalliae quæ olim Lusitania, novissima & exactissima descriptio, Auctore Vernando Alvaro Secco (a very new and exact description of Portugal, once known as Lusitania, by Fernando Alvaro Secco). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis T
1573
National Maritime Museum
Regni Hispaniae post omnium editiones locupletissima descriptio (the most complete description of the kingdom of Spain, based on all publications). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured co
1573
National Maritime Museum
Scotiae tabula (map of Scotland). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. North is at 90 degrees. There is a key, inscribed on part of Ireland, to the islands in Loch
1573
National Maritime Museum
Typus Orbis Terrarum (Image of the globe of the world). Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. It depicts the world on an oval projection, surrounded by sky. It is a
1573
National Maritime Museum