{"id":1788833,"date":"2020-05-25T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788833"},"modified":"2020-05-25T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:26:18","slug":"engravers-the-unsung-heroes-of-mapmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/engravers-the-unsung-heroes-of-mapmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Engravers: The Unsung Heroes of Mapmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bodleian\u2019s Map Room Blog (no relation) has a post about the \u201cunsung heroes\u201d of mapmaking<\/a>: the engravers.<\/p>\n

Until the nineteenth century, virtually all printed maps were produced by engraving the map on a sheet of copper\u2014or later on, steel\u2014as a mirror image of how the finished map would look. The plate was then inked and the image printed onto a sheet of paper in a printing press. This was incredibly skilled work, but often only very discreetly acknowledged, the engraver\u2019s name appearing in tiny, modest letters in the bottom margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Identifying the engravers for cataloguing purposes\u2014something a library like the Bodleian tries to do\u2014can be a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bodleian\u2019s Map Room Blog (no relation) has a post about the \u201cunsung heroes\u201d of mapmaking: the engravers. Until the nineteenth century, virtually all printed maps were produced by engraving the map on a sheet… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[538,184,1447,48],"class_list":["post-1788833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-bodleian","tag-bodleian-library","tag-engraving","tag-libraries","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5133,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/an-austro-hungarian-mapmaking-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788833,"position":0},"title":"An Austro-Hungarian Mapmaking Guide","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Bodleian Map Room Blog posts some excerpts from an 1882 Austro-Hungarian guide to mapmaking. \"The Schl\u00fcssel und vorlageblatter f\u00fcr den situations zeichnungs unterricht (which translates roughly as \u2018Key and template for\u00a0drawing lessons\u2019) is a teaching aid created by the Institute of Military Geography in the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of War\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/schluessel-und-vorlageblatter-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/schluessel-und-vorlageblatter-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/schluessel-und-vorlageblatter-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/schluessel-und-vorlageblatter-1024x768.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787490,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/07\/talking-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788833,"position":1},"title":"Talking Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 July 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Talking Maps, opening today at the Bodleian Libraries, is a major new map exhibition featuring maps from the Bodleian's collections. 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