SKU: PM0175
This print is of Philips' mercantile chart of the commercial routes to the East. With the invention of the steamship and the rise of the British Empire, the East became both a marketplace and a direction. This extract shows the empire famously coloured in red, as well as dozens of maritime routes. B1 (244).
- Printed in the UK exclusively for the Bodleian Libraries exhibition Talking Maps
- Size A3 including mount