EmoriaCustom art prints and star maps
Maps · Collection 01

Brighton print, drawn from the real map

50.8225°N / 0.1372°W · United Kingdom

A single unbroken front of building, from one end of the town to the other: no gap where one place stops and the next begins.

You choose the framing, the palette and the words of the caption. The work is drawn from real data, then printed to order in the workshop closest to you.

Compose my Brighton print
What the map shows

A straight shore, and everything above it

Behind that line the ground rises, and the streets show it: nearly all of them run down towards the water. At the top of the sheet a motorway caps the town at the foot of the hills, and it is the only thing that marks where the built ground ends. Eastward, a large rectangular marina is taken from the sea, all straight edges and enclosed water. And near the centre, two streets back from the beach, an open garden makes the only real break in an otherwise very dense front.

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Two good surprises. The first: a pier draws. It shows as a fine dotted line leaving the shore and reaching out over the water, because the base map knows it as a way to walk rather than a building. The second is the hills: their woods and grassland take a tint in broad patches, and to the north-east a whole hill comes into the town in green. Beyond the motorway, the open fields stay pale. The station and its tracks, as always, are absent.

Compose your own

What suits Brighton

The palette

The sea takes the whole lower part of the sheet and is the largest mass; the hills to the north answer it in green patches. So this is first a print of one strong horizontal, and the choice of water tone decides almost everything: keep the green light enough that it does not fight the town for the top of the sheet. Deep water gives a sharp two-part image, sea and town, divided by that straight line. Keep the ink crisp all the same, because the pier is a very fine dotted line and pale ink will lose it.

The framing

Portrait, sea at the bottom and hills above. The width matters more than the height here: the whole point is that the front runs edge to edge without a break, and coming closer would cut it into an ordinary seaside centre. The chosen frame keeps the front whole and the marina at the eastern edge, at the cost of a garden that stays small.

The caption

The title, one line under it, the coordinates. The name of a street off the front, a year, the name of a pier: that line names what the fine dotted line cannot say for itself.

The sheet
Subject
Brighton, United Kingdom
Palette
Kersanton
Map style
Clean and Detailed
Layout
Split top
Typeface
Elegant
Framing
Zoom 11.6
Fade at the edges
0%
Format
Portrait
The palette of this poster

Kersanton

Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.

  • Background
  • Water
  • Greenery
  • Built-up areas
  • Roads
  • Buildings
  • Text
  • Motorways
  • Main roads
  • Secondary roads
  • Minor roads
  • Streets
  • Service roads
  • Paths
  • Railways
  • Borders
Compose with this paletteStart from it to make your own

Opens the colour workshop with these 16 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.

It will wait in your account, ready for any piece.

What the drawing tells

Three dates that explain the town

1787A prince turned a fishing town into a resort

The Prince of Wales, later George IV, discovered Brighton in 1783, and Henry Holland turned the house he rented into the Marine Pavilion, the first form of the palace. The garden you can see near the centre is what remains of that decision on the map: the one piece of open ground in a front that is otherwise built solid.

1841The railway made it everyone's resort

The station opened on 21 September 1841 and put London an hour and three quarters away. A resort invented for one prince became a resort for a whole city, and the front you see running edge to edge is the shape of that change. The station itself will not appear on your print: railway land is never drawn.

1850The palace became municipal property

Queen Victoria, who could no longer bear the crowds her predecessors had drawn, sold the Pavilion to the town. A royal palace became a municipal building, and its gardens stayed open. That is why, on a map made of dense terraces, there is a green rectangle two streets from the beach.

Before ordering

The four questions people ask

Can I choose any place, any date?

Yes. The search covers the whole world, from a capital to a hamlet. For the Sky collection, any date works, past or future: the sky is calculated.

What sizes do you offer?

From 21 × 29.7 cm to 84.1 × 118.9 cm, that is A4 to A0, portrait or landscape depending on the material. Every size is shown with its price in the editor.

What materials do you offer?

Four, from the barest to the most dressed.

  • Matte fine art paperA 200 gsm art paper with a deep matte finish: the bare print, to frame as you please.
  • Wooden hangersThe print suspended between two wooden hangers, ready to hang, in the spirit of studio posters.
  • The classic frameThe print mounted under acrylic glass in a slim frame, assembled by hand, delivered ready to hang.
  • Framed canvasThe piece printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden stretcher bar and set in a frame: a gallery presence.
How long does it take?

Making depends on the edition: 1 to 3 working days for Fine Art paper and wooden hangers, 3 days for the poster and the mounted frame, 3 to 5 days for the framed canvas. Transit depends on the country:

Delivered toIn transitIn total
European Union5 to 7 working days6 to 12 working days
United Kingdom2 to 3 working days3 to 8 working days
United States4 to 6 working days5 to 11 working days
CanadaNational deliveryGiven at dispatch
AustraliaNational deliveryGiven at dispatch

These are standard delivery times and remain indicative. For a set date, order two to three weeks ahead.

Digital editions are available immediately: the file of your piece can be downloaded from your account as soon as you order, and an email lets you know the moment it is ready.

All the questions

Your Brighton

The street that ran down to the sea, the pier at the end of an afternoon, the walk west along the front until the town changed name. The straight line is the same for everyone. Where you came down to it is not.

Compose my Brighton print