France in Provinces by J Wyld and NR Hewitt

Code: 53924

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 : 44.8 cms x 39.5cms; image size: 286mm x 231mm including imprint.  Bottom left vignette of Place Vendome in Paris.  Very good condition apart from some faint marks and one spot in bottom margin.

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.