Map of a Nation (90 page)
Authors: Rachel Hewitt
(N) James Walker Tucker’s
Hiking
, 1936, was painted as rambling was exploding in popularity as a leisure pursuit. It shows the centrality of the Ordnance Survey to this phenomenon.
(O) The area around the Isle of Dogs, to the east of London, from Sheet 1 of the Ordnance Survey’s first map – of Kent – in 1801.
(P) Two map-like impressions of the view from an early hot-air balloon and its route, taken from Thomas Baldwin’s
Airopaidia
, published in 1786.
(Q) Robert Dawson’s 1816 plan of the mountainous scenery surrounding Cadair Idris, at the southern end of Snowdonia. The summit of Cadair Idris lies near the centre of the map.
(R) Benjamin Robert Haydon’s portrait of William Wordsworth, 1842.
(S) Charles Grey’s portrait of John O’Donovan.
(T) A sampler ‘Map of England’, dating from 1780.
(U) A board game marketed in the late 1780s. Counters move between major geographical landmarks on lines showing ‘measured’ distances.
(V) William Blake’s print of Isaac Newton. Blake opposed the Newtonian view of the universe.
(W) A detail from the Ordnance Survey’s six-inch map of Londonderry, 1833.
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First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2010
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