Jeremy Morley sent this pic of an early map of Mozambique and surrounding territories from the Military Museum in Lisbon. It’s interesting that the map has west to the top (north arrow points right), quite unusual – I’m guessing that the map was rotated to hang in landscape to fit on a wall space rather than cartographic reasons.
Luke Harvey spotted this map on the cover of the Metro, London’s free morning paper available on the Underground (July 18th 2019). […]
Ivan Sanchez pointed me to Juan Toro’s pic of Texeira’s map of Madrid (original 1656) in a Seville metro station
Greg Fiske said “Admiring the nexus of #IndigenousArt and #mapsinthewild this week. Dena’ina land” In case you are wondering Dena’ina is in […]
This one was spotted by Dave Lovell (again!) “At the House of Illustration https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/ summer 2019. Nixon as a sinister bald eagle. Love it!” […]
