Tallis’ Map of Germany
SKU: 8010
£100.00
Title:
Tallis’ Map of Germany
Date of publication:
c.1851
Printed Measurement:
27 x 36 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
John Rapkin
Germany
Steel engraving, 35 x 25 cm, original outline colour, blank verso; a map of Germany engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas. Vignettes engraved by John Rogers: the Palace at Saxe Gotha, birthplace of Prince Albert; Coburg; Cologne; Dresden; Luther’s house in Frankfurt; silver mines in the Harz Mountains, and profiles of Johannes Gutenberg, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, the ‘inventors of printing’.