Maps, Botanical Prints, and Engravings: Things on the Wall

A colonial wall adorned with paper items. The content includes old nautical charts and maps, hand-drawn botanical and ornithological specimen illustrations, and a few black and white architectural prints; all frames are narrow dark wood with white matting, in varying sizes. They are hung as a group, aligned by their outer contours rather than equidistant. The paper has yellowed. The rest of the wall is empty. Avoid: using colorful modern posters and decorative paintings, making frames wide and gold, hanging paintings to cover the entire wall, using sets of prints of uniform size.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面掛著紙本的殖民牆。內容是舊的航海圖與地圖、手繪的植物與鳥類標本圖、幾張黑白的建築版畫;裱框全部是細窄的深色木框配白色的卡紙邊,尺寸不一。它們掛成一組,靠外輪廓對齊而不是等距。紙張已經泛黃。牆的其餘部分是空的。避免:使用彩色的現代海報與裝飾畫、把畫框做成寬的金框、讓畫掛滿整面牆、使用統一尺寸的成套版畫。