Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.”

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East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there’s something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com

• The Moon Map
• Whisky Map of Scotland
• Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland
• The Paris Map
• Kevin’s calfskin portolan map
• The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius
• Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries
• Pergamena
• Claire Fanjul
• Francesca Baerald
• Sara Farooqi
• Neil Gower
• Anton Thomas
• Rumsey map collection
• NACIS annual meeting

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