Features

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  • Hand Coloring
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Hand Coloring

Eighteenth-century printers added color to their maps by hand. This could be anything from the modest addition of colored lines at borders to completely painting over almost the entire map. Image: detail from René Phelipeau, Plan de la ville du Cap Francois et de ses environs dans l'Isle St. Domingue, 1786