America by J Wyld and NR Hewitt

America by J Wyld and NR Hewitt

Code: 53905

£100.00 Approx $126.1, €116.69
 

Date: 1819

Whole continent.  Copper engraving after Wyld engraved by Hewitt with original hand colouring.   Overall size hinged into off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decorative v groove : 37.8 cms x 46.2 cms; image size: 218mm x 307mm including imprint.   Vignette bottom left of Cascade of Regla, near Mexico.  Odd mark to margin under mount else very good condition. Very prominent mountain ranges and very small United States .

Nathaniel Rogers Hewitt (fl.1804-1841) was a map draughtsman, engraver, printer and map colourist. (See British Map Engravers  Worms and Baynton-Williams. James Wyld (1790-1836) Mapseller, cartopgrapher, publisher, engraver, lithographer, globemaker and surveyor.   He took over the Faden business in 1823, subequently becoming Geographer to the King. The business was continued by his son James Wyld 2 after he died, it said by overwork, in 1836.