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We are excited to announce that from 10th March to 21st April 2023, Icelandic artist Kristjana S. Williams will be exhibiting her extraordinary and immersive map-based artwork at London’s oldest map specialist, The Map House.
Find out more: https://t.co/PDnKyHNpVI
Read our suitably autumnal feature from The Print Gallery at The Map House: https://t.co/AMR3saXI9R
#antiques #autumn #autumncolours #Interiors
Spring has sprung 💐 The featured collection at The Print Gallery at The Map House this month is John Hill's "Eden or a Compleat Body of Gardening" (1757).
Find out more about this collection: https://t.co/cV87iL6jEA
#spring #antiques #botanicals
新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year! 🐅🌏
To celebrate, here is the very first European atlas map of China (Ortelius, 1612 - Second Edition), accompanied by a fine original antique lithograph of a tiger (Brodtmann, 1824).
https://t.co/Y8WXZEw36k
#YearOfTheTiger #maps #antiques
Featured in The Print Gallery at The Map House this month are the intricate studies by great naturalist and explorer Charles Henry Dessalines d’Orbigny (1806-1876)
See the collection: https://t.co/UrGevC8Yki
Recent acquisitions at The Map House:
🌍Beautiful city plan of Florence by Homann Heirs (1731)
🌏South Australia and Adelaide by Arrowsmith (1842)
🌎Moon phase from a study by Sir Robert Ball (1893)
Explore more 🔎 https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7
Known as the ‘Raphael of flowers’, Pierre-Joseph #Redouté (1759-1840) is considered by many one of the greatest botanical artists.
Find out more about our collection of original #antique botanical #prints by Redouté in our December feature: https://t.co/UrGevC8Yki
Filming in The Map House gallery yesterday afternoon with @JamWaterhouse for a @BBCNews piece about air bridges. Accompanied by beautiful vintage Air France promotional poster showing early flight routes, designed by Lucien Boucher & published circa 1937 (https://t.co/stRlaMDTk6)
It's #NationalGardeningWeek, and over in The Print Gallery at The Map House we have been putting together some beautiful bouquets for you with the help of Jane C. Loudon's "The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden" (1841)
https://t.co/UrGevC8Yki #nationalgardeningweek #StayHome
Happy (Mappy) Birthday to Flemish cartographer extraordinaire, Abraham Ortelius 🎉 who was born #onthisday 1527. His landmark work "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" [Theatre of the World] published 1570, was THE world's first modern atlas.
#mappybirthday #maps #stayhome