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Subject: RE: Re: Maps and Color
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:38:34 -0600
From: Youngblood, Dawn <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Colleagues
One of my favorite references on this topic is "Five Centuries of Map Printing" edited by David Woodward. This text offers an overview covering map printing from 1472 to 1970. It is not cumbersome to read, being only 150 pages or so sans index and notes. The text is based on the third series of Nebenzahl Lectures on the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago held in 1972. It talks of aquatints, lithography, the works. As mentioned in previous responses, any map could be hand colored of an extra charge. For example, Thomas Jefferson paid the extra for an "enlumineur" when he purchased maps in Paris. See page 69-70 of this text for more detail. Carlos, if this text is unavailable to your patron, please send me your fax number off list and I will send these two pages with full reference.
Dawn Youngblood, PhD
Curator of Maps
Edwin J. Foscue Map Libray
Dallas TX 75275-0135
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Subject: RE: Maps and Color
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:27:05 -0500
From: Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
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Here's another resource that may be of interest:
Art and cartography: six historical essays. edited by David Woodward.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1987.
More specifically, it contains an essay by Ulla Ehrensvard entitled "Color
in Cartography: a Historical Survey".
Hallie Pritchett
Map Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA 30602
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http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/
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Subject: Re: Maps and Color
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:53:02 EST
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Although it does not deal directly with maps, I think the best book
for this type of question is Bamber Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints.
F.J. Manesek's Collecting Old Maps is also useful.
As Angie says, prior to about 1850 (with a few exceptions) maps were
uncolored or colored by hand for an extra charge. Most maps produced
during this period were copper engravings or wood cuts, and it is not
unusual for them to exist in both colored and uncolored versions. This
situation changed around 1850 with the introduction of
chromolithography. Colored lithographs and colored maps produced by
other processes became increasingly common in the second half of the
nineteenth century.
David Allen
Encinitas, CA
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