Rider and Surveyor

Johannes Blaeu (Amsterdam, c.1648), from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Vol. IV: England and Wales :
Detail from the County of Westmorland
© Meg Twycross 2022

Blaeu often puts illustrations of surveying instruments near the scale of miles, but usually they are just a pair of dividers wielded by putti. In this case he has shown a genuine surveyor with a chain (and an apprentice), being directed by a rider in a large hat.