Tag: illustration

  • Which it’s a map of Aubrey-Maturin’s Port Mahon

    Which it’s a map of Aubrey-Maturin’s Port Mahon

    Master and Commander, the first of Patrick O’Brian’s epic series of naval fiction featuring Jack Aubrey, a Royal Navy Officer, and Stephen Maturin, his friend, a naval surgeon and spy, starts off in Port Mahon in Menorca. Much of the first book is spent in and around Mahon, a British Naval Base at the time…

  • Howth Head – Six Inch Casini style drawn map

    Howth Head – Six Inch Casini style drawn map

    Drawn on an A3 sheet with Pitt Artist Pens from Faber-Castell, I drew this map during one of the first Covid lockdowns. It is a recreation of the Ordnance Survey’s 6 inch map showing Howth Head.

  • War Office map of the Mediterranean, 1937 (printed 1953)

    War Office map of the Mediterranean, 1937 (printed 1953)

    British War Office map of the Mediterranean, dating from 1937, with revisions to international boundaries by the Ordnance Survey in the 1950s. I really like the colour schemes on this map, as well as the sections which go beyond the border (not sure if there’s a cartographical term for when this happens, but I like…