A Storm off the Normandy Coast

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

Homer travelled to England in 1881 and, after spending a few weeks in London, settled in the village of Cullercoats near Tynemouth on the craggy North Sea coast, remaining there un...

This is a plan of Deal Castle, the Tudor artillery fort dating from around 1539. One of a chain of castles along the south coast of England commission by Henry VIII to protect the ...

This is a map of the south-west coast of England, from Exeter to Land’s End. It dates from 1539-40 and its creation can be imputed to the threat of invasion which became probable i...