Denmark by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co

Code: 53840

Date: 1871

Published 1854 in Philadelphia.  Lithograph with original full wash hand colouring. Overall sheet size: 29.1cms x 34.7cms; image size: 251mm x 307mm.  Colour coded according to province. Slight browning to margins else very good condition.

Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. were a publishing company based in Philadelphia. They were part of the burgeoning atlas and map publishing in the early to mid-nineteenth century. They published many famous works, including Tanner’s New Universal Atlas.  Their maps are notable for the decorative borders and fine, vivid original hand colouring.