Cartographic Wonders
Rose's Angling in Troubled Waters
Every European power, fishing for an empire.
- Map
- Angling in troubled waters
- Mapmaker
- Frederick W. Rose
- Date
- c. 1899
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Fred Rose drew each country of Europe as a fisherman, holding a sack of its imperial catch or about to lose what it has caught. It is a serio-comic map, the form he made his own, and it works like a political cartoon: national attitudes become people and animals, and the fishing is an allegory for European meddling far from home. A key map of Europe in an inset lets the reader check who is who. Rose's octopus map of 1877 is already in this collection, and this is the same hand twenty years on, still angry and still funny.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
