On BibliOdysee: Victorian Infographics. Among them: Tableau De L’Histoire Universelle depuis la Creation jusqu’a ce jour (Table of universal history, from creation to today).
Click for large (3000 x 4128) scan on FlickrThis is a fold-out print depicting all of human history from the time of creation (4693 BC = Adam & Eve; the great flood = 3300 BC) up to the date of publication (1858 by Eug. Pick, Paris). Vignettes of historically significant people, places and buildings etc are arranged along the borders.
The designer has employed something of a metaphorical display choice: civilisations are presented as a series of rivers — the widths likely imply the comparative population level of each group versus the world’s population — which ‘flow’ down through history.
