Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei Ashley Cooper

Ashley Cooper

Spreading out across the continent they are stinging the crazed

colourful Scottish financier John Law won the confidence of the Duke of Orleans (then Regent of France)

2nd Duke of Albemarle

Speed’s Map of Scotland Mapmaker(s)_Innocenzo Mattaei Ashley CooperCartographically Speed follows Mercator, but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders originally represented James VI and I and his family, including a young Prince Charles. The royal family was burnished from the copper plate during the Interregnum and replaced with the commoners seen here: a Scotch man and woman, and a Highland man and woman (notable as early depictions of tartan). John