Product information: New Zealand
Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. A highly decorative antique map of New Zealand, which is showing the North and South Islands with many details. We do find engraved place names, rivers, lakes and mountains. The map is decorated with three finely hand colored engraved vignette city views: the city of Aukland, Mont Egmont from New Flymouth and the city of Wellington. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.
Properties
| Category: | New Zealand |
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| Issue date: | 1851 |
| Published place: | London & New York |
| Publisher: | John Tallis & Company |
| Technique: | Steel engraving, hand colored. |
| Type: | Antique Map, map |