1810 John Augustus Atkinson Original Water Colour Art of an English War Skirmish Portraits Before the fifteenth century the Before the fifteenth century the people of Southern Europe had little geographical knowledge of the Scandinavian World except from sketchy detail shown in the Catalan Atlas (1375) and on a number of " portolani" embracing Denmark and the southern tip of Norway This is an extraordinary piece of antique early marketing promotion drawn by one of Americas famous Civil War illustrators Alfred Waud pencil and watercolour picture of an English Civil War battle scene was painted by John Augustus Atkinson in ca 1810 Atkinson returned to England and in 1803 published A Picturesque Representation of the Manners