Delaware and Maryland Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored with Insets, 1864

Name: Delaware and Maryland Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored with Insets, 1864
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-36
Price: 300 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14.1 × 18 in)
Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light age toning with a few small spots or handling marks in margins, typical for antique atlas maps. The edges brittle with small tears, but no damage to the image.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Delaware, Maryland
Reference: BG-13952-36

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

Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia, "Johnson's Delaware and Maryland by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the left of the sheet within the publisher's ornamental border.

The two states are drawn with their counties tinted in pink, green and yellow, from the Allegheny ranges in the far west of Maryland across the Chesapeake Bay to the Delmarva peninsula, and Delaware is outlined at the right. Rivers, roads, railroads and towns are lettered throughout, and the Potomac is traced along the southern boundary of Maryland. Across the top, three engraved views of Washington buildings sit above the map: the Patent Office, the Treasury Building and the General Post Office. A large inset at the lower left, "District of Columbia," gives a plan of the city of Washington with its streets and a key to its public buildings.

The Washington buildings were prominent landmarks of the Union capital at the date of the map, and the plan of the city fills the space in the lower left that the geography of the two states leaves empty.

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