Antique Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Dutch Manuscript Map of Early Utrecht vintage carved wooden foot I can almost hear him

I can almost hear him chatting away

Italian engineer and architect Pier Nervi

which also reminds me of those old mystery boxes where one sticks one's hand inside and feels around at some unknown thing

but most often populated with figures and animals

so he could live in a garden bed or just in a plant

Antique Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Dutch Manuscript Map of Early Utrecht vintage carved wooden foot I can almost hear himI am not in the least a map expert, but I sure love to look at them, and think this one is quite an exquisite thing. With an old fold line down the center, I'm pretty sure it came from an old Dutch manuscript, and someone more knowledgable that I has dated it to the late 18th century or so. Ive learned from a brilliant Dutch instagram follower that it is based on a c. 690 AD map of what is now Utrecht and that the castle is the castle Trecht, located