Ink Maps

Map of Iceland, 1600s.

Cabalistic Map - Book by Johann Georg Hagelgans. Sphaera Coelestis Mystica, 1739. Plate 7

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Like Venice, the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was built on a series of marshy islands, though it was located in a mountain basin rather than a lagoon. This hand-colored woodcut map was the first picture Europeans had of the city, printed in Nuremberg, 1524

The Voyage of the Pequod from the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

Produced by the Harris-Seybold Company of Cleveland between in 1956.

Happy birthday, Moby-Dick. I'll have to assume on this map that the whale is standing in for the proper punctuation. 

Lydia Satterthwaite, Embroidered terrestrial globe (1817)

The Fra Mauro Map

The Fra Mauro map, “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography” according to Roberto Almagià, is a map made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter.

A copy of the world map was made by Fra Mauro and his assistant Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, under a commission by king Afonso V of Portugal. This copy was completed on April 24, 1459, and sent to Portugal, but did not survive to the present day.

The map was discovered in the monastery of San Michele in Isola, Murano, where the Camaldolese cartographer had his studio, and is now located in a stairway in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, but is visible by entering in the Museo Correr, where it is accessible from the easternmost room upon request to the museum attendants there.

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I love this crazy-detailed hand-drawn map of London by Jenni Sparks.

Jodocus Hondius, Leo Belgicus, 1611

Lion map.

Map: New York City’s harbor (1892) originally posted to the BIG Map Blog.

A lot can change in 100 years.

Map of the World.

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(via The only weather map you’ll need this summer | Grist)

This is the most accurate weather map I've seen for today.

archiveofaffinities:

A literal "ink map."