Mapwork: Sandby and the Topographical Tradition




Royal Academy of Arts (archive) show

Summary: An evening talk in support of the exhibition 'Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition'. Map-making was a major part of Paul Sandby's early career on the Military Survey of Scotland, and much of his subsequent landscape art maintained connections with cartography. Professor Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, shows how cartography arguably enlarged the scope and power of Sandby's art.