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Sir Thomas More, De Optimo Reip Statu, Utopia, Basle,
1518 woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein.
Richard
Edes Harrison, New York , FORTUNE magazine
foldout July 1939
Relief
Map of the Rhine
Points
of the Compass, Reed's Seamanship 1952
Anthropomorphic
Wales in Geographic Fun 1868
MERCATOR
THE
BRITISH ISLES
ATLAS
TITLE PAGES
MAPS
IN BOOKS
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
from a book of Geographical Fun, Humourous Outlines of Various Countries,
Hodder & Stoughton 1869; lithographs published by Vincent Brooks,
Day & Son after drawings by a young girl with copy by ALEPH (?)
Anthropomorphic
Wales from Geographic Fun 1868
Pieter van
den Keevere's Leo Belgicus, the seventeen provinces of the United Netherlands
and used in several map editions, here Petrus Montanus Germania Inferior,
1617.
The Foolscap Map copper engraving c1620 In the Map Collector June 1971
p47 Rodney Green in correspondence quotes from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,
a direct reference to a map made like a fool's head "all the world
is mad..."
See Christopher Packe, Map of Kent with giant mnemonic figure overlaid,
from ANKOGRAPHIA 1743
See James Gillray, The French Invasion 1793, the Monarch
excretes from his Channel Port
MAPMAKING
Read these three examples of the mapping of deltas (vertically)
- analyse how accretions of knowledge gradually change the way a coastline
is mapped. From A.E.Nordenskiold, Periplus: An Essay on the Early History
of Charts and Sailing Directions, 1897, and printed in The Map Collector
December 1982.
SERIF/SANS
SERIF The great American cartographer Richard Edes Harrison encourages
the use of serif letters in maps to avoid confusion.
CONTOUR
MAPPING from Mechanix Illustrated June 1946
MAKING
THE GLOBES A worker applies the adhesive shaped panels to the
base globe.
from Mechanix Illustrated February 1951
FORMATS
OF MAPS Early view of Rome from Gelenius' Description of the
Roman Empire under Honorius and Arcadius .Here the oblique angle with
representational intent. Together with a three bay arcade with figures
and landscape beyond. Published in Basle in 1552.
From an
edition of Ptolemy (from 1545) - an early example of a themes map, where
the information makes clear visual differentiation between two religious
affiliations - Catholic and Hussite.
THE GRAND
JUNCTION CANAL - two halves c1820
MAPS
IN ADVERTISEMENTS
GRAPHIC
CONVENTIONS
POINTS
OF THE COMPASS
from The Royal Encyclopedia 1788 - 1790.
The Runaway
Shuttle Train, Story by Muriel Fuller and Pictures by Dorathea Dana, David
McKay Company, Washington Square, Philadelphia, 1946. The story began
as The Lost Shuttle Train in 1941. Each page measures 17 x 24cms.
from
the Catalogue of the Sale of the Scott Library 1974 ; details unknown.
from Blaeu, Le Theatre du Mond e,Amsterdam, 1635, from a map of Holland.
published
at the end of the 15th century, original title unknown.
RONALD
LAMPITT
Lampitt is the star of many informative books for children. If he did
idealise children into Janet and John types, he drew landscapes, townscapes
as real places for real people, and with an understated pallette. He rarely
appears in dictionaries of illustrators.
illustration to The Map That Came to Life ,described by H.J.Deverson,and
published undated c1950, the comparison of the flat conventions of the
ordinance Survey and the three dimensional actuality.
illustration to the cover of The Open Road described by H.J.Deverson,
London 1965.The journey undetaken during the book is neatly summed up
as a sort of quiz at the end.
and my favourite,
The Picture Map of Adventure Holidays,
from H.J.Deverson's Mainly for Children , 1960.
WARMAPS
Blood curdling techniques ands aesthetic blandness to give the impression
of vast forces at work under complete control, FORTUNE's map of conflict
from a feature on the Rand Corporation. 17 x 25cms.
SUBJECTIVE
MAP The Surrealist apportioning the world's land mass.
GRAPHIC
CONVENTIONS The map and the elevation on the same sheet.
Plautus
(the Abbot of Seitenstetten, Novus Typis transacta Navigatio Novi Orbis
Iniae Occidentalis ... Linz 1621. The engraving, by Wolfgang Kilian, shows
St.Brandan celebrating Mass on a Whale's back. The scale is made even
more absurd by the intervention of the conventions of traditional cartography.
a map of Brighton that uses the device of a panel with representation
of the town from the sea, while a map of the area is located above. Thomas
Yeakell and William Gardner Map of Brighthelmstone (Brighton) published
in Brighton in 1779.
and a variant to the above, the combination of the topographical with
the diagrammatic in a town plan of Strasburg from Matthaus Merian, Topographia
Alsatiae , printed in Frankfurt in 1644., showing the abstractions of
the fortifications.
MAPS IN
ADS
How can a familiar contour be depicted to link its concept to your project,
your product ?
03 November 1966, full page advert
04 May 1955
05 image illustrating John MacDonald's article on Diamonds for the Masses,
FORTUNE magazine December 1964, 23 x 35cms
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