Manuscript Maps That Imitate Printed Maps
Some Examples in Early Spanish American Cartography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manuel Morato-Moreno (0000-0003-0809-1413, Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 86-106 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cart.53.2.2017-0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2883421730 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
From the early days of the colonization of the Americas, the Spanish crown needed to ascertain and represent the new overseas territories for control and demarcation purposes. In the last third of the sixteenth century, the instrument that was designed to carry out the project of representation of the New World was that of surveys. This great project is known as Relaciones Geográficas de Indias (Geographical Relations of the Indies). Local authorities had to answer questions about geography, topography, toponymy, resources, etc. In addition, a map of the region was requested. In this corpus, a set of maps is found characterized by a distinctive style, in that they strive to imitate the style of the printed maps that were being made in Europe at the time. These maps followed an inverse trend to that observed in the first printed maps, which strove to imitate the style of hand-drawn maps. Following a search in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville (Spain) and in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, in which a total of seven maps were located, a descriptive study of these maps was carried out
Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Style (visual arts · Toponymy · Historical Studies in Science · Historical Studies on Spain
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |