THE PORTOLAN: JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY
ISSUE 44 (Spring1999)
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Issue 44 (Spring1999), consisting of 60 pages, including numerous
illustrated articles, was published in May 1999 and has been sent to
all pre-paid subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map
Society. This issues contains two articles from the 1998 Ristow Prize
competition and integrates color. The Portolan is published three times per
year. Issue 45 is expected to be released in September 1999.
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CONTENTS OF ISSUE 44 - Spring 1999
ARTICLES
"Science, Giants and Gold: Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa
Geográfico de America Meridional." by Ken Mitchell. This paper is the
winner of the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map
Librarianship.
"The National Palette: Painting and Map-Coloring in the Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Republic." by Lisa Davis-Allen. This paper received honorable
mention in the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map
Librarianship. For color illustrations used as figures in this article,
see: http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/portolan44.htm
"The George Washington Map Collection in the Library of Congress." by
Edward Redmond.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of
articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the
history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.
SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May 1999 - March 2000.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Into the Year 2000.
3. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
4. Notes from, and Travels with, the Editor.
5. Geography in Washington Between the Civil War and World War I.
AUTHORS/SOURCES OF ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
KEN MITCHELL is the winner of the 1998 WALTER W. RISTOW PRIZE IN THE
HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY AND MAP LIBRARIANSHIP. A graduate of Pomona
College, he attends graduate school (in history) at the University of
Minnesota. His focuses on 17th-century European documents of the New World.
LISA DAVIS-ALLEN, a doctoral candidate in European History at the
University of Texas at Arlington, is Lecturer in Art History at the
University of Texas at Tyler. She received her B.F.A. in Printmaking
with a minor in Art History in 1983, and an M.A. in History with
a specialization in Art and Cartography from the University of Texas at
Arlington in 1987. Ms. Davis-Allen currently is working on her Ph.D.
dissertation, which addresses the palette in both seventeenth-century Dutch
and eighteenth-century French painting and map-coloring. Her article in
The Portolan is winner of Honorable Mention in the 1998 Ristow Prize
competition.
EDWARD REDMOND is Reference Librarian at the Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress and current Vice President of the Washington Map Society.
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