Sunday Mirror Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the "Daily Mirror". It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the "Sunday Mirror" in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the "News of the World", more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. The paper launched as the "Sunday Pictorial" on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced
Pictorial map that pictorial mapping has been around since recorded history began. In Medieval cartography, pictorial icons as well as religious and historical ideas usually overshadowed accurate geographic proportions. A classic example of this is the T and O map which represented the three known continents in the form of a cross with Jerusalem at its center. The more precise art of illustrating detailed bird’s-eye-view urban landscapes flourished during the European Renaissance. As emerging trade centers such as Venice began to prosper, local rulers commissioned artists to develop pictorial overviews of their towns to help them organize trade fairs and direct the