Africa 1851
Africa 1851 by J. TallisAfrica 1851
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This splendid map serves as a wonderful example of mid-19th century pictorial mapmaking at a time when explorers were revealing the secrets of the "dark" continent. The map is adorned with illustrations of an Arab family of Algeria, wild bushmen, Bedouin Arab encampment and korranna Hottentots. To the bottom left there is a splendid view of St Helena.
John Tallis, a London publisher, was one of the most well known cartographers of the 19th Century. John Tallis was renowned for the very accurate and visually attractive maps and views of all world areas during the Victorian Age. His principal engraver and map maker was John Rapkin. During the mid 19th Century many books of travel and exploration were published by Tallis, using the extraordinary artistic and engraving skills of John Rapkin. Beginning in 1851, John Tallis & Co. issued their Illustrated Atlas, which contained maps of all parts of the world. These detailed maps are renowned for their decorative borders and the small finely engraved vignettes of indigenous scenes and the people representing the many parts of the World.Buying Options
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