{"id":1791600,"date":"2021-08-18T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791600"},"modified":"2021-08-18T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:04:24","slug":"a-project-to-restore-a-19th-century-treatise-on-hand-drawn-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/a-project-to-restore-a-19th-century-treatise-on-hand-drawn-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"A Project to Restore a 19th-Century Treatise on Hand-drawn Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI have a new mapping project on Kickstarter<\/a>,\u201d writes our friend Alejandro Polanco. \u201cThis time it is about recovering some exciting hand-drawn maps by a forgotten craftsman from the 19th century.\u201d This is Alejandro\u2019s second project to digitally recover a 19th-century illustrated book; this time his target is an 1890 edition of a treatise on topographical drawing by Juan Papell y Llenas. The book is full of detailed examples of mapping techniques done only with ink on paper. Alejandro\u2019s restored edition, The Art of Hand-drawn Maps 1890<\/em><\/a>, will be released this fall in digital (\u20ac18 pledge) and paper (\u20ac32) editions.<\/p>\n

Alejandro\u2019s previous crowdfunding projects include Pandemic Atlas<\/a>, The Minimal Geography Atlas<\/a>, Minimal Geography<\/a> and Maptorian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have a new mapping project on Kickstarter,\u201d writes our friend Alejandro Polanco. \u201cThis time it is about recovering some exciting hand-drawn maps by a forgotten craftsman from the 19th century.\u201d This is Alejandro\u2019s second… 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":[30,917,191,104,210],"class_list":["post-1791600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-crowdfunding","tag-hand-drawn","tag-kickstarter","tag-relief-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1812216,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/a-kickstarter-project-to-rediscover-19th-century-atlases\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791600,"position":0},"title":"A Kickstarter Project to Rediscover 19th-Century Atlases","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 January 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter, Geography 1880,\u00a0is in the vein of some of his previous ones: restoring and reprinting works from the late 19th century. 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