Large Antique Map of New England with decorative Vignettes

1861 · Maps

Large Antique Map of New England with decorative Vignettes

Name: Large Antique Map of New England with decorative Vignettes
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13560
Price: 435 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1861
Kind: Maps
Size: 67.5 × 46 cm (26.6 × 18.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Original folding line. Minor wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Reference: BG-13560

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

New England on a large lithographed sheet, Johnson's New England, published by Johnson and Browning in 1861 and printed with the delicate outline color typical of Johnson atlas maps. The title cartouche at lower right reads "Johnson's New England, by Johnson & Browning".

The map covers Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, with the states tinted in contrasting pink, green and yellow and counties outlined within them. Railroads and towns are laid across the whole region, from Long Island Sound and Cape Cod to the Canadian border, with adjoining parts of New York and Canada at the left and top. Four vignettes fill the corners: Niagara suspension bridge at upper left, and views of the observatories at Yale, Amherst and Cambridge, together with the onetime home of Daniel Webster, along the lower and right margins. The sheet is enclosed in a decorative chain-link border.

Johnson was among the better American mapmakers of the nineteenth century and was known for keeping its maps current with the changes then under way. An 1861 date places this sheet on the eve of the Civil War.

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