On Maps
"The dogs of war are loose in Europe"
This map was conspicuously absent from the blog post on First World War satirical maps which I wrote over a year ago. “Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark!” is a...
"The dogs of war are loose in Europe"
This map was conspicuously absent from the blog post on First World War satirical maps which I wrote over a year ago. “Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark!” is a...
What was Blaeu trying to say?
I’ve just been contemplating one of Willem Blaeu’s more striking cartouches, which adorns the map of the Turkish Empire which he engraved in the 1630’s. It was copied directly by...
What was Blaeu trying to say?
I’ve just been contemplating one of Willem Blaeu’s more striking cartouches, which adorns the map of the Turkish Empire which he engraved in the 1630’s. It was copied directly by...
More map cover art
More examples of maps which have interested me. All happen to be from the same era, but I’m making no further claims for coherence - they just instances where the...
More map cover art
More examples of maps which have interested me. All happen to be from the same era, but I’m making no further claims for coherence - they just instances where the...
Hollar's Hull
I’m often asked how maps were printed in the hand-press period. And the (short) answer is that that between the late fifteenth and the early nineteenth-centuries, the finest results were...
Hollar's Hull
I’m often asked how maps were printed in the hand-press period. And the (short) answer is that that between the late fifteenth and the early nineteenth-centuries, the finest results were...
"They cut his throat from ear to ear": crime maps
"They cut his throat from ear to ear, his head they battered in; his name was Mr William Weare, who dwelt at Lyon’s Inn." This well-enough known fragment of doggerel...
"They cut his throat from ear to ear": crime maps
"They cut his throat from ear to ear, his head they battered in; his name was Mr William Weare, who dwelt at Lyon’s Inn." This well-enough known fragment of doggerel...
A devotional map of Saint Barbara's island
I’ve never seen a map quite like this before. It’s on a small vellum leaf (13.5 x 8.5 cms) which has been pierced with great intricacy to create a lace-like...
A devotional map of Saint Barbara's island
I’ve never seen a map quite like this before. It’s on a small vellum leaf (13.5 x 8.5 cms) which has been pierced with great intricacy to create a lace-like...