Hindostan or India

Circa 1820-40s

Original hand-coloured steel engraving on paper

Without mount: 9.5 x 7.7 in (24.3 x 19.6 cm)
With mount: 15.8 x 14 in (40.2 x 35.8 cm)

Original hand-coloured steel engraved map published between 1823-40, by Nuttall, Fisher & Co, for A Complete Atlas of the World by John Russell et al.

A very rare work assembled from the same plates used in various Barclay's Universal Dictionary editions. The maps, which are a combination of steel and copper engravings, are dated between 1823 and 1840. Although the plates are publisher stock plates from the 1820s and 1830s, the Atlas was produced in 1839-1840.

John Russell (c. 1750 - 1829)
He was a British cartographer who worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in London. Russell worked as William Palmer's goldsmith apprentice before pursuing his interests in engraving and printing. For a number of prominent publishers of the era, including Alexander Dalrymple, Benjamin Henry, Robert Sayer, John Moore, and William Guthrie, he engraved and created maps. Among Russell's ten apprentices were notable cartographers including Samuel Clapp and Alexander Findlay. Constitution Row Grays Inn Lane, Middlesex (London) served as Russell's model.

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