Antique Brazil Map, Sidney Hall Engraving for A & C Black Atlas c.1842–1853

Name: Antique Brazil Map, Sidney Hall Engraving for A & C Black Atlas c.1842–1853
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-00602
Price: 290 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1842
Maker: Adam & Charles Black
Kind: Maps
Size: 42 × 33.5 cm (16.5 × 13.2 in)
Condition: Good. overall condition for age, with light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with an atlas sheet. Margins remain generous.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-00602

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.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

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

Brazil on a map engraved by Sidney Hall for A. & C. Black's atlas, issued about 1842 to 1853. The sheet is an engraved map with soft outline color, the title "Brazil" lettered in a ruled cartouche at lower right, and a plate number at upper right.

Brazil is tinted in a warm tan across the center of the sheet, with its borders picked out in red. Relief is drawn in hachures, with the great river systems of the Amazon and the Plata basin laid out across the interior and the long Atlantic coast lettered with ports and headlands, and the shaded coastal waters give the sheet a soft, painterly look. The map extends beyond the national borders to include Uruguay, Paraguay, the Guianas and parts of Colombia, Peru and Chile, which are left uncolored at the edges.

Sidney Hall was among the leading British engravers of the early Victorian period, and his plates for atlases were reused for decades.

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