Old Map of the British Isles in 1851 by John Tallis - England, Scotland, Ireland, Decorative Victorian Atlas sea monster imagery and entrepreneurs

and entrepreneurs

With its detailed topography and classic cartographic style

Whether you’ve wandered through Tokyo’s neon-lit precincts or studied Edo’s quiet backstreets

moon orbits

This vintage map captures the intricate waterways

Old Map of the British Isles in 1851 by John Tallis - England, Scotland, Ireland, Decorative Victorian Atlas sea monster imagery and entrepreneursBy the middle of the nineteenth century the fashion for lavishly decorated national maps was already fading, yet John Tallis's 1851 map of the British Isles stands as one of its last great flourishes. Issued as part of his Illustrated Atlas and engraved by John Rapkin, it was produced for a middle class Victorian public eager for wall maps that doubled as parlour decoration, arriving just as the plainer, survey based maps associated with the Ordnance