Germany by J Wild and NR Hewitt

Code: 53918

 Date 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 : 44.6 cms x 39.5cms; image size: 293mm x 236mm including imprint. Top right vignette of three German figures in the mountains. Reference key in left hand blank denoting the fourteen provinces.   Some toning and very faint mark in blank areas else very good condition .
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.