Old Map of Dublin, Ireland in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Central Dublin, Temple Bar, Stoneybatter, Docklands, River Liffey, Leinster Kilburn and architecture—a mosaic of stark

and architecture—a mosaic of stark islands and fertile plains where each settlement forged its own identity

it brings an element of the wild indoors

perched gracefully on a tree branch

this 1922 map invites reflections on a city shaped by trade

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 and architecture—a mosaic of stark1851 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,