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Cheshire by John Cary

£60.00 Approx $75.76, €70.18

Code: 49227



Author: John Cary

Date published: 1793

Copper engraving with original outline colouring. Overall size in off white fully conservation mount and backing : 41.3cms x 37.4cms. Engraved size: 262mm x 209mm. Two small faint marks in top blank area -see magnified image- else very good condition. Supplied with original page of text describing the county. John Cary (1754-1835) was a London based cartographer active in the early part of the 19th century. Ronald Vere Tooley, the prominent English map historian, says of Cary, "As an engraver he was elegant and exact with fine clear lettering and great delicacy of touch."" Cary began his work as an engraver