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A combination of technical as well as artistic styles, are brought together, including important contributions from the Royal Engineers Regiment as well as City Council later Public Works draftsmen, surveyors, and engineers.

Additionally, important pieces from historical cartography, some unique, provide a diverse blend. The showpiece is an over-sized, framed, 18th Century, Map of Gibraltar, created by Major Charles Warren, Royal Engineers.

The physical set of cartography on display will be complemented by a large record-set of digital maps, plans and other cartographic curiosities electronically accessible via an over-sized touch display.

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• Plano de la Toma de posesion de Gibraltar por el Duque de Medina Sidonia, 1468.
• Africa Pars, Anton Van Den Wyngaeride, 1567.
• Gibraltar, Anton Van Den Wyngaeride, 1567.
• Gbvelaltar, Anton Van Den Wyngaeride, 1567.
• La vaja de Jibraltar, Cristobal de Rojas, 1608.
• Estrecho de Gibraltar, Luis Bravo de Acuna, 1627.
• La trama urbana de Gibraltar, Luis Bravo de Acuna, 1627.
• Monte y ciudad de Gibraltar, Pedro Texeira, 1634.
• The plane of the town of Gibraltar, Edmund Drummer, 1685.
• Die fahrt von Cadiz nach Malaga durch die Straasse oder Meer-Eng von Gibraltar aus dem Ocean in das Mittellaendische Meer (The trip from Cadiz to Malaga by road or sea close of Gibraltar from the Ocean in the Netherlands Sea), 1704.
• Geometrical plan of the town, mountain and bay of Gibraltar, 1710.
• Mapa de la bahia de Gibraltar con el proyecto para ocupar y fortificar las Algeciras, Marquez de Verboon, 1722.
• Plano del Norte de Gibraltar con los ataques ejecutados, 1727.
• Series of coloured plans showing the external defences of Gibraltar under Lt General Sabine Governor of Gibraltar. Jonas Moore, 1732.
• Plano de la Plaza de Gibraltar y de la linea de los espanoles, 1740.
• Demostracion de un barco armado con su escala de cien hombres para dar el asalto a la plaza de Gibraltar, 1742.
• Plan de ataque a la plaza y penon de Gibraltar. Con navios mercantes de 64 canones transformados en baterias flotantes incombustibiles y insumergibiles, 1781.
• Idea extravagante para tomar la plaza de Gibraltar, 1782.
• Chart of the bay of Gibraltar, J Drinkwater, 1785.
• Plan del Proyecto de las obras para el bloqueo de Gibraltar, 1787.
• Vista de Gibraltar y modo de incendiar los barcos en su bahia, 1805.

Further to the items highlighted above a large number of digital maps and plans from the 15th to the 21st Centuries are now available for viewing by contacting us.

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Post-renaissance cartography clearly presents the separation of place and space in ways that may be interpreted as analogous to the acquisition, management and reinforcement of imperialism and colonialism. Fortification as well as building in general, implemented from detailed observation, cartographic study and design, was and still is a way of broadcasting established power and control. Over the ages maps have been used not only to represent space but also to establish the identity, the legitimacy and the agency of individuals, groups and ventures. Consequently, maps are profoundly implicated in the disruption of ‘natural order’.

Cartographic history is consistent with the development of modern scientific practise founded on geometry and projection. Before science’s claim to cartography, map-making was an activity mostly carried out by families, clans or tribes. In this context making a map invariably was an occasion for the display of artistry. Cartography thus, acquired cultural meaning. Today’s tendency of modern art to separate itself from aesthetics has brought about a continued albeit critical engagement from avant-garde artists with cartography.

Maps have served the notions of beauty, ugliness and utilitarianism, having been used as floor-mosaics, frescoes, tapestries and wall-hangings since early times. As from the early seventeenth century maps became collectors’ items. Today we celebrate the ancient art of cartography the liberator of place from space.