SDUK Map of Stockholm
SKU: 9491Title:
SDUK Map of Stockholm
Date of publication:
1836
Printed Measurement:
33.5 x 40.5 cm
Publisher(s):
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Benjamin Rees Davies
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement.
Condition & Materials
Steel engraving, 33.5 x 40.5 cm, engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour, view of Stockholm on a scroll bottom left, cut close, as usual with this map (narrow upper margin, very edge of vignette cropped bottom left), short closed tear, top right, blank verso.