West Indies by J Wyld and NR Hewitt

West Indies by J Wyld and NR Hewitt

Code: 53909

£55.00 Approx $69.36, €64.18
 

Date: 1819

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 : 44.5 cms x 39.5cms; image size: 291mm x 220mm. slight toning in blank areas else very good condition.  Vignette top right of figure, of Britannia with supplicant black figures , one kneeling before her.  
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.