Old Map of Dublin, Ireland in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Central Dublin, Temple Bar, Stoneybatter, Docklands, River Liffey, Leinster Kilburn Its beautifully aged aesthetic enhances

Its beautifully aged aesthetic enhances its authenticity

and fine linework of the original engraving

this 1922 map invites reflections on a city shaped by trade

Beyond its eye-catching layout

Whether paired with literature on activism or displayed alongside photographs from the era

Old Map of Dublin, Ireland in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Central Dublin, Temple Bar, Stoneybatter, Docklands, River Liffey, Leinster Kilburn Its beautifully aged aesthetic enhances1851 was the year London staged the Great Exhibition, and it was for the accompanying wave of interest in geography that the publisher John Tallis commissioned his Illustrated Atlas of the World, engraved on steel by John Rapkin and issued as one of the last great decorative atlases of the Victorian age. Dublin, then the second city of the United Kingdom and a major administrative and commercial hub, was given its own dedicated plan within the atlas,