Pictorial maps - maps with vignette illustrations on top of the geographical content - go back practically to the known beginning of cartographic history: Petroglyph maps dating from the Neolithic sometimes are found combining geographic features with representations of animals, people or dwellings.
Vignette insets or overlays are also found throughout the period of printed maps. But maps richly overlaid with small pictures are more commonly found from the 19th century onwards. (A notable exception is the Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, published in Venice in 1539, which presents a depiction of Scandinavia with more than 100 small woodcut illustrations of animals, real and imagined, and of people pursuing all kinds of activities, such as hunting, fishing, skiing, etc.)
Ernest Dudley Chase was an exceptional creator of pictorial maps. Though he worked primarily as a graphic artist and businessman in the greeting card industry, Chase also designed, drew, and self-published more than 50 pictorial map...
Bland arbeten.
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.
CODDE, Capt. PIETER, of ENCHUYSEN.
Bland arbeten.
Seehaven ende stads Van Duynkercken 1631. Använd av Blaeu 1634 och Jansonnius.
Även den franska upplagan 1643/44 med titeln 'Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynckercke et places voisines, sables etc. facit par le Capitaine Pierre Codde d'Enschuse.
R.deT. Tooley.
Doctor Medicine & Mathematics, cartographer,
Bland arbeten.
Bentheim Blaeu 1635, 1649 & 1662;
Bentheim, Hondius 1633.
Tooley.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
de Briant - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
