Ornate 1850s Map of the United States: Featuring Iconic Landmarks and Portrets

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Ornate 1850s Map of the United States: Featuring Iconic Landmarks and Portrets

Name: Ornate 1850s Map of the United States: Featuring Iconic Landmarks and Portrets
Brand: John Tallis
SKU: BG-13999-11
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Maker: John Tallis
Kind: Maps
Size: 27.8 × 36.2 cm (10.9 × 14.3 in)
Condition: Good. Considering age, with vibrant engraving detail and minimal wear. Centrefold crease as issued with small split on the bottom side, outside the image. Study the images carefully.
Reference: BG-13999-11

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

United States, an original steel-engraved decorative map from a Tallis atlas of the 1850s, drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin and published by J. & F. Tallis, with outline color for each state and border vignettes illustrated by J. Marchant and engraved by J. Rogers. The title "United States" is lettered in a panel at the top of the border.

The map covers the country east of the Pacific slope with Canada above and the Gulf of Mexico below. States and territories are outlined in color, with the Mississippi, the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast drawn in detail, and Texas extends west across the Rio Grande region in a large outline. Two coats of arms, one of them a shield with stars and stripes, stand at the head of the sheet. The border carries a view of the Capitol at Washington at the upper left, the Washington Monument at the lower right, oval portraits of Washington and Franklin on either side, a buffalo hunt at the lower left and a scene with figures in the center of the foot.

The patterns of states and territories mark the country at the middle of the nineteenth century, when Texas and the lands west to the Pacific had only recently been added.

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