//=time() ?>
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)
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
#InternationalWomensDay
Celebrating #women in #maps with this powerful and beautiful atlas frontispiece (Wise, c1840). 🌍🌏🌎
Head to https://t.co/uSnvUGxo39 where will be shining a spotlight on female map makers and publishers in The Map House collection. #womeninmaps
‘When Maps Go to War: Pictorial Conflict Maps, 1900-1950’, a free talk by Director of The Map House and co-author of 'War Map', Philip Curtis 🌍
Tomorrow, Thursday 20th February, starting 5pm at the Warburg Institute (@Warburg_News, @UCL)🏛
Info: https://t.co/q1Y8MeJMHw #maps
#OTD 1909 explorers Ernest Shackleton, Frank Wild, Jameson Adams & Eric Marshall created a 'Farthest South' record in Antarctica - 88°23'S. Just 97miles from the pole🇦🇶📍[https://t.co/MzhheeEjRN]
Find out more in our C❄❄L book "The Mapping of Antarctica" https://t.co/aC9Cejcd50
Announcing our collaborative exhibition at 5 Carlos Place with @MATCHESFASHION.
Adorning the walls, a carefully curated and evolving collection of exquisite original antique and vintage #maps & prints.
Runs until Fri 28 Feb 2020.
https://t.co/yf1edF9fpv
🎃🌍 Beware! It's not just #mapmonsters lurking in the galleries of The Map House.. 💀🧠 This #Halloween, we've dusted off some gruesome #antique anatomical prints especially for you👁🕸 [Lizars, c.1822-40]
See the collection, if you dare: https://t.co/u98v0VvIbO
"One equal temper of heroic hearts. Made weak by time and fate but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" #OTD 1912, British #Antarctic explorer, #CaptainScott died. Discover Scott's photographs of the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-12: https://t.co/t5YnCbXCOg
Recent acquisitions this month include this #map by Homann Heirs of the Kingdom of #China 🌏 with a decorative title cartouche flanked by dragons 🐉 Published in circa 1740 and featuring bright original colour. View more new additions: https://t.co/u97GJAo2NA