Cartridge (cartography)

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Cartridge on a map of Canada (1777)

A cartridge in cartography refers to a map element that consists of a decorative frame and a text field. With coats of arms , symbols , ribbons , plants or people and animals, it forms a mostly ornamental border for the map title, author, scale , legend and year of publication. They are usually inserted as filling on the free areas of the map sheet. In the Rococo and Baroque in particular , cards were decorated with them and usually contained a title or explanation of the card.

A dedication cartouche shows who this globe or map is dedicated to (often a king or other ruler).

Examples

  • Cartouche on the North America map by Herman Moll (1712)

  • Cartouche on a map of the Kursk region in the official atlas of the Russian Empire (1792)

  • Cartouche on a map of Flanders by Nicolas Berey (17th century, Paris)

  • Cartouche on a map of Persia (1787)

  • Cartouche on a city map of Rennes (1726)

  • Dedication cartouche on a globe (1765):
    "[...] Dedicated to the king by his most devoted and obedient servant and very loyal subject Desnos [...]"

  • Cartouche on a map of Belgium by Tobias Lotter (1761)

literature

  • Traudl Seifert: The card as a work of art. Decorative maps from the Middle Ages and modern times . Edited by the Bavarian State Library. Unterschneidheim 1979.
  • David Woodward (Ed.): Art and Cartography , Chicago and London 1987.
  • Joachim Möller: "Pictura Loquens - Amazonum Regio and the myth of Guyana in map and cartouche". In: ders .: cartridges. Shape and message of an ornament , Dinslaken 2018, pp. 60–89.

See also

Cartridge (art)

Web links

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