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Van Diemens Land by James Wyld

£95.00 Approx $119.95, €111.11

Code: 52680



Author: Wyld, James

Publisher: Atlas of the World

Date published: 182-1836

Steel engraving (by Stockley) with original hand colouring. Overall size hinged into off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decorative v groove: 38.7cms x 45cms; image size: 223mm x 280mm. Attractive piano key border. List of 39 districts bottom right. Statistical table below title and scale of miles bottom right, numbers given for Free People, Convicts, Land in Cultivation and Livestock. Very good condition. James Wyld was apprenticed to William Faden, taking over the business in 1823 and becoming Geographer to His Majesty (George IV and William IV) and his maps were among the most excellent published in the Nineteenth Century. He enjoyed a very successful career but died early from overwork. His son continued and expanded the business having joined his father in the map trade at 18. He became Geographer to the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Albert and was M.P. for Bodmin from 1847-1852 and from 1857-1868. He was master of the Clothworkers Company and worked hard for the promotion of technical schools. Like his father he was held in high esteem and held no less than 17 European orders of merit. He died in 1887 in Kensington. His son James John Cooper Wyld (1845-1907) took over on his father's death but sold the family business to G.W. Bacon in 1892. (Tooley)