A 19th-Century Map of West Canada with Niagara Falls and Indigenous Scenes

circa 1850 · Maps

A 19th-Century Map of West Canada with Niagara Falls and Indigenous Scenes

Name: A 19th-Century Map of West Canada with Niagara Falls and Indigenous Scenes
Brand: John Tallis
SKU: BG-13999-22
Price: 125 USD
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Date: circa 1850
Maker: John Tallis
Kind: Maps
Size: 27.8 × 36.2 cm (10.9 × 14.3 in)
Condition: Good. With vibrant hand-colored bordelines, clear engravings, and minimal age-related wear, except for the folding line that is a bit rough with tiny holes from the binding and not yet flattened.
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-13999-22

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

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Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Canada, an original steel-engraved decorative map of the western province, Upper Canada or Canada West, drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin and published by J. & F. Tallis, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, about 1850. The illustrations are credited to H. Warren and engraved by J. H. Rogers.

The map covers the peninsula between Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, with Georgian Bay, the Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence to the east. The districts are outlined in color and the roads and townships are drawn in fine detail, with the Indian Territory marked on the Bruce peninsula. At the lower right is a view of the Falls of Niagara, and the border carries a hunting scene on horseback at the upper left, a beaver at the upper right, and a group of Indigenous figures at the left of the map. The title "Canada" is lettered across the top of the floral border.

The Tallis vignettes here give the colonial view of the province: the Niagara Falls as its great sight, and the hunting and fur-trade scenes as the other familiar images of Canada at midcentury.

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