Dorset, A Bird's Eye View, Mid 18th Century

A view of part of Dorset, etching by George Bickham the Elder

"Bird's eye view of Dorset: in the foreground a coach driven along a road "From the Crown Inn Dorchester", three men, two on horseback, one on foot with a dog, look over the river Stour; a rocky landscape beyond with the coast from Poole to Lyme and inland towns from Christchurch to Axminster; annotated with topographical references".