Austrian Empire by Sidney Hall

Code: 53883

Date 1840

Steel engraving with original outline hand colouring denoting the different counties.   Overall size 61.6cms x 50.2cms; image size: 505mm x 416mm. Piano key border.  Centrefold as published. Towns, roads and railways marked.  Very detailed, beautifully engraved map. Three scales of miles ; browning to margins and brownish stain above map at centrefold (a mount would cover this)  else very good condition.  Includes Hungary, Lombardy, Tyrol, Illyria, Austria, Moravia, Bohemia, Gallicia and Lodomir, Transylvania , Bukowina etc

Sidney Hall was an engraver, cartographer and copperplate printer.  Worms and Baynton-Williams state in,'British Map Engravers' that Hall was almost certainly the first engraver to use the new harder steel plates for map work, using plates manufactured by the Jacob Perkins process as early as 1821.  He died at the age of forty two and his widow Selina Hall, continued the business, her practice of signing her engravings simply as ,'S.Hall' has caused much confusion among bibliographers.