Antique map - Sheffield 1884
Poster sold unframed but easy to frame!
This poster is sold rolled up inside a rigid protective tube. Our sizes are standard and you will easily find a frame or poster hanger (magnetic poster holder) to suit your taste!
Description
Explore the urban transformation of Yorkshire's great steel city at the end of the Victorian era with this art reprint of the historic map titled Plan of Sheffield. Originally published in 1884, this cartographic document of surgical precision offers a captivating glimpse into one of England's most powerful industrial hubs. Designed at a Scale of Half a Mile, this archival plan is an essential centerpiece for enthusiasts of vintage cartography, historical geography, or British history.
The layout's immense graphic richness is adorned with a soft pink tint to delineate the dense urban and industrial fabric of the city centre, traversed to the north by the meanders of the River Don and by the network of major railway lines, such as the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. The map highlights the various administrative divisions through an official table of Borough Wards (city districts such as St. Peter's Ward, Upper Hallam, or Attercliffe) as well as a box of numbered References listing the churches, hospitals, and public buildings of the period. To visually structure this landscape of brick and steel, superb touches of watercolor blue-green highlight the municipality's green lungs, notably the vast Norfolk Park to the southeast, the reservoirs, and the cricket ground (Cricket Ground).
This historic map of Sheffield stands out for its great functionality, incorporating an extremely comprehensive alphabetical street index on either side, from Aberdeen Street to Winter Street, allowing you to locate every thoroughfare using a coordinate system. The understated cartouche located at the bottom right underscores the authenticity of this late 19th-century document. Carefully reprinted on high-quality paper, this superb reprint preserves the delicate nuances and original cream patina, making it an ideal and full-of-character wall decoration to enhance an office, library, or elegant living room.
Creative paper
For vintage paper posters, we use a natural-toned and textured, slightly grained, 200 gsm FSC®-certified fine art paper. We chose this paper for its durability and to preserve its vintage look: it is an uncoated paper, so the colors will have an "aged" appearance that stays true to the spirit of the original card.
If you would like to get an idea of how the printed result will look, which is always different from what you see on screen, please contact us and we will be happy to help! Rest assured that we will do our utmost to respond to your request as quickly as possible!
Shipping costs
For shipping, we use Colissimo by La Poste.
You can choose your Colissimo pickup point after paying for your order (you have 10 business days to collect your order).
We recommend choosing delivery to a pickup point, as you can select the one that suits you, to avoid being delivered to a pickup point you cannot choose if you are not home for a home delivery with Colissimo.
- Mainland France : €6 to a pickup point, €8 for home delivery without signature, €9 for home delivery with signature, free delivery to a pickup point on orders over €60
- Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland): €12, free delivery on orders over €100
- United Kingdom: €18, free delivery on orders over €120
Manufacturing and delivery
For paper posters : we print to order in our workshop in Bordeaux.
- We prepare orders within 24 to 48 hours (Monday to Friday) after receipt of payment and hand over the packages on day 2/3. Colissimo then delivers within 3 to 4 days.
- If your order contains several posters, they will be shipped in a single shipping tube.
If you wish to receive your posters in separate tubes, you will need to place as many orders as desired tubes.
- Please allow a total delivery time of 5 to 7 business days to receive your order (excluding holiday periods or exceptional circumstances).
- For urgent orders, you can call us at 05 56 02 03 20 or write to us at bonjour@cartopolo.fr
For complaints related to delivery, you have a maximum of 7 days from the receipt of the package, dated by the delivery notice, to send them to us. Sending photos of the packaging, the shipping label attached to the packaging, as well as the product will facilitate the processing of your request.
Satisfied or your money back!
Not satisfied or have you changed your mind? You have 14 days from the date of receipt to return your order to us.
Once the returned product has been received by Cartopolo in perfect condition in its unopened original packaging, the refund will be issued to the credit card used for the purchase within 30 days.
Returns are only accepted for standard products from our online catalog. Any order that has been customized cannot be returned or refunded.
If you have any doubts or questions about a product before purchasing it, we recommend contacting us via our contact form or by phone. We will do our utmost to respond as quickly as possible!