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Tallis' Map of Jamaica

Tallis' Map of Jamaica

SKU: 9931
£150.00
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Title:
Tallis' Map of Jamaica

Date of publication:

  • c.1851

    • Place of publication:

    Colour:

  • original

    • Mapmaker:

  • John Tallis

    • Engraver:

  • William Lacey

    • This map of Jamaica includes vignettes of Kingston, Port Royal, Port Antonio, and a sugar mill.

    The map was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis’ Illustrated Atlas, and the vignettes were engraved by William Lacey after Henry Winkles.  Read more

    John Tallis the younger (1817-76) is best remembered for his hugely popular Illustrated Atlas published serially from the mid 1840s onwards and in its complete form in 1851. 

    He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840s. Seemingly a victim of unscrupulous business partners, he died in penury and is buried in an unmarked grave. 

    Condition & Materials
    Steel engraving, printed area measures 26.5 x 34.5 cm. Original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Read less