-------- Original Message -------- 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 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum on behalf of Angie Cope Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 12:51 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Maps and Color -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Maps and Color Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:27:05 -0500 From: Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]> To: 'Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]> 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 [log in to unmask] 706-542-0690 FAX: 706-583-0631 http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/ -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Maps and Color -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Maps and Color Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:53:02 EST From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. <http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp0030000 0002548>