Tasmania by Edward Weller

Code: 53813

Date 1865

Lithograph with original outline hand colouring.  Overall size in sheet size:  33.5cms x 46.7cms.  Image size : 301mm x 433mm including legend beneath neatline. Centrefold as published.  Three brown spots bottom left blank area and one below Hunter Island; browning to margin edges and odd spot else very good condition.

Edward Weller was a cartographer and engraver based in London. His best known work appears in Cassell’s Weekly Dispatch Atlas, published in monthly segments for subscribers of the “Weekly Dispatch” newspaper.  The maps are characterised by their detail and attractive outline colour and up to date information.  The majority have an emblematical design of the upper half of a globe with a scroll "the Dispatch atlas" wrapped round it  and above is the flying figure of Mercury (messenger of the Gods) .