France in Provinces by J Wyld / NR Hewitt

Code: 51966

Author: J Wyld / NR Hewitt

Date published: 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 : 44.9 cms x 39.6cms; image size: 286mm x 231mm including imprint. Bottom left vignette Place Vendome in Paris. Very good condition apart from one pale mark at imprint in bottom margin. 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.