‘Going for Baroque - Japan Map’ [from Harvard College Library channel]
“In the seventeenth century, the Netherlands was actively engaged in exploration, colonization, and trade throughout all regions of the globe, and Dutch publishers were busy keeping up with a growing internal demand for travel accounts, illustrations, and maps. This map of Japan, published for the first time in 1715, shows one of Holland’s newest commercial partners.”
(Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)
Japan From China. (drawn by) Richard Edes Harrison 1943.
Biography from MapsofWorld.com:
Richard Edes Harrison was one of the renowned cartographers of the 1940s. He was a Yale architecture graduate, whose new techniques and theory created novel standards in the field of cartography. Richard Edes Harrison published his first map in 1932 in the Time magazine. He worked as a freelance artist, a cartographic consultant and a staff member of various national magazines. He was also a visiting lecturer in many universities.
Richard Edes Harrison was a gifted illustrator and his maps maintained an artistic dimension. Richard Edes Harrison is known to combine geography, geometry and imagination in his maps. The motive behind the creation of the maps was to serve the map readers and help them understand the political and geographical situations.
It was in 1940 that his work came to be acknowledged. In the same year, Richard Edes Harrison is known to have created maps for Fortune magazine. In these maps he modified the bird’s eye view format to a global setting. The best of his maps were published as ‘Look at the World: The Fortune Atlas for World Strategy’ in 1944.
print / album / Matsuda Rokuzan?
銅版画の貼込帳より 地図二種 松田緑山? 年代不詳
萬國輿地畧圖 17.15 cm（6 3/4 in.）
大日本輿地全圖 15.24 cm（6 in.）
※文庫本サイズの日本地図。
