(China) Accurate Map of China... Antique Flags and Banners we begin to see it

we begin to see it as an inviting and as a way to communicate the place in a way that was accessible and in the vernacular

such as the location of “Fort Browning (Abandoned and burnt 1873)”

Image size is approximately 15 x 27

a man guarding a still

(China) Accurate Map of China... Antique Flags and Banners we begin to see itA New & Accurate Map of China, Drawn from Surveys made by the Jesuit Missionaries, by Order of the Emperor. The whole being regulated by numerous Astronomical Observations. By Eman. Bowen. The Jesuits began to survey the vast land of China in July of 1708 and finished in 1717, creating a foundational understanding of the land of the far east. Depicting the drainages, regionional boundaries as well as the towns and placenames, it's a leap forward in