Hindoostan (India) by Sidney Hall

Code: 54210

Date: 1842

Large steel engraving with original hand colouring. Overall size 50.2cms x 61.3cms; image size: 415mm x 508mm. Highly detailed showing rivers, mountain ranges, towns etc  Very clear map showing great detail.  In the North Lassa and Paltee Lake is marked together with the Himmaleh Mountains below. Some faint spotting in top right blank and bottom left blank .  Colour key bottom right : Red showing British Possessions while Yellow shows Territories under British influence by tribute protection or subsidy, Green is for Territories of Independent States.  Four scales of distance below
 Some browning to margin edges else detailed map in very good condition.
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.