Tallis’ Map of Glasgow
SKU: 9408Title:
Tallis’ Map of Glasgow
Date of publication:
c.1851
Printed Measurement:
36.3 x 51.4 cm sheet size
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Henry Winkles
This map of Glasgow is of the town plans published in Tallis’ hugely popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’ which was published serially from the mid 1840s onwards, and in its complete form in 1851. The map includes a view of Glasgow from the Green, and vignettes of the University and the Cathedral.
Condition & Materials
Steel engraving, sheet size 36.3 x 51.4 cm, engraved by John Rapkin with vignettes drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles, modern hand colour, clear archival tape on verso where previously mounted and bottom margin extended for mounting, blank verso.