New online exhibition: Mapping Empire
Introduction
There’s something undeniably captivating about old maps. Worn edges, elaborate compass roses, sea monsters adrift in unknown waters. These images don’t just chart the world, they narrate it. Cartography, especially in the early modern period, was as much about imagination and ideology as it was about politics and geography.
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