The more people traveled with maps, the more they needed them to fit in small places. For 19th-century city maps, owners often cut maps into rectangles and pasted them to a sturdy fabric so they could repeatedly fold them without unexpected rips. Look carefully at this example of a map of London: how do the folds interact with the other lines on the map? When was the last time you folded and unfolded a map?
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| Artist | Thomas Tegg |
|---|---|
| Title | Tegg’s new plan of London, &c with 360 references to the principal streets, &c. |
| Year | 1831 |
| Dimensions | 35 x 60 cm |
| Medium | Hand-colored engraving on paper, dissected and mounted on linen |
| Location | Newberry Library |