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.
1531-88. Född i Messina, död i Padua.
Italiensk matematiker. Han var under en tid lärare åt Prins Vincent av Mantua och blev senare professor i matematik i Padua. Efter uppdrag hos påven Gregor XIII och stadsrådet i Venedig, utförde han 'Tabulas Gregorianas' som förbättring av kalendern. Förutom sin skickliga kommentarutgåva av Ptolomaeus gav han ut 'Tabulas geographicas' och 'Ephemerides coelestium motuum ab an. 1563 ad 1580'.
Bland arbeten.
Tabulas Gregorianas.
Tabulas geographicas.
Ephemerides coelestium motuum ab an. 1563 ad 1580.
Jöcher.
Beskriven som 'Navigator and Hydrograph in Dieppe' (1634). Utgav bl.a. en hydrografisk världskarta.
RdeT.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 15 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.
