Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Spain and Portugal
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Barcode:
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36878003017044
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Title:
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Spain and Portugal
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Original Title:
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Spain & Portugal
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Contributor:
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Lancaster, Elizabeth Lilian, 1852-1939, cartographer
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Contributor:
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Brooks, Vincent, 1815?-1885, lithographer
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Contributor:
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Day & Son, lithographer
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Contributor:
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Hodder and Stoughton, publisher
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Category:
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Caricature
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Type:
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Printed
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Language:
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English
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Create Year:
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[ca. 1868]
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Page No.:
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6
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Scale:
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Scale not given.
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Physical Map Dimension (cm):
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24 x 28 cm, on sheet 25 x 30 cm
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Note:
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This map is from the book 'Geographical fun : being humorous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines' in which the maps are drawn by Elizabeth Lilian Lancaster. She was only 15 years old at the time and made them to amuse her ill brother. However, the author of the text, under the name Aleph, was William Harvey, a London doctor and journalist. Lancaster’s maps both taught geography and incorporated important political events and figures. The collection of maps together with the text are a one sided cartoonish view held by England and Englishmen of the political situation of the countries represented. This is also easily perceptible as all the countries are caricatures, sometimes very offensive, with the exception of England that is gloriously depicted in the figure of Queen Victoria accompanied by an elegant exaltation. On this particular map the verses allude to the search for a king for Spain by the Spanish Prime Minister Juan Prim y Prats, and considerations for a new union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain under Fernando II of Portugal.
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Note:
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Original is a colored caricature printed map from the book 'Geographical fun', 24 x 28 cm.
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Note:
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Portugal is depicted as a bear, with its head being the Spanish province Galicia, and Spain as a lady with grapes on her left hand. The couple represents king Fernando II of Portugal and the Queen Isabel II of Spain and the hopes of a marriage between the two that would bring together the two countries. Gibraltar is depicted with a United Kingdom flag. Portuguese flag of the last kingdom of Portugal (1834-1920) on the Atlantic Ocean and Portuguese coat of arms on the left bottom corner of the map. On the right bottom corner there is the coat of arms of Spain above the proposed flag for the Iberian Union.
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Note:
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Oriented with East at the top.
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Note:
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Land masses and islands outlined with blue bathymetric isolines.
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Note:
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Map outlined in triple fillet.
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Geographic Area:
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Portugal
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Geographic Area:
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Spain
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Relation Note:
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6
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Pub Title:
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Geographical fun : being humourous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines
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Pub Author:
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Harvey, William, 1796-1866
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Pub Year:
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[ca. 1868]
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Pub location:
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London
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Provenance:
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Library of Congress
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Provenance:
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https://lccn.loc.gov/84675540
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Provenance Call No.:
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G1796.A6 H3 1868 Vault
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MUST holding:
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https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000069199705076
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