The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  
Meridian & Co. CARTOGRAPHERS, 1898
27 21 7 11 47 9 MERIDIAN ZERO · AFTER THE CONFERENCE PLATE OF 1884

MERIDIAN ZERO · AFTER THE CONFERENCE PLATE OF 1884

Plate 305 · 1884

Meridian Zero

The 1884 plate is the house's strangest commission: a map of the argument itself, not the ground. It charts the claims of every delegation to the meridian conference as lines of latitude, each weighted by how hard its delegate argued, with the eventual winner cut in full and the losers left in broken rule. The facsimile was engraved in 1984 from glass photographs of the lost original.

Plate
Copper, hand-engraved
State
Facsimile, 1984
Paper
Buff laid, 190 gsm
Edition
220 impressions
Margins
Facsimile of original defects
Reference
MC-MZ-84
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