I can't work if that intriguing dark-skinned Atlas, squatting painfully on one knee, is located outside a generic riverside town, or if that's supposed to be London. Is that an etiolated dome of Saint Paul's in the background? It may well be, because the frontispiece is Britannia attended, in 19th-C British fashion, by representative maidens from the four corners of empire.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
J Miller's "The Universal Gazetteer, or Alphabetical Geography" (1826)
The title page:
I can't work if that intriguing dark-skinned Atlas, squatting painfully on one knee, is located outside a generic riverside town, or if that's supposed to be London. Is that an etiolated dome of Saint Paul's in the background? It may well be, because the frontispiece is Britannia attended, in 19th-C British fashion, by representative maidens from the four corners of empire.
I can't work if that intriguing dark-skinned Atlas, squatting painfully on one knee, is located outside a generic riverside town, or if that's supposed to be London. Is that an etiolated dome of Saint Paul's in the background? It may well be, because the frontispiece is Britannia attended, in 19th-C British fashion, by representative maidens from the four corners of empire.
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