| Method | Steel engraved with original hand colour |
| Artist | Wyld, James |
| Published | London. Published by Jas. Wyld Geographer to the Queen. Charing Cross. East. & Model of the Earth, Leicester Square. 1854 |
| Dimensions | Each sheet 550 x 920 mm |
| Notes |
Superbly detailed map printed over two sheets of the Russian dominions in Europe from James Wyld's A New General Atlas of Modern Geography. This area was then known as White Russia. The map extends north through the Ukraine to Smolensk and east to the Caspian Sea on the southern map; and includes Finland, the Arctic Sea coast, Muscovia, Archangel, and parts of Siberia on the northern map. Presented in extraordinary detail throughout detailing every city and town as well as topography, which is rendered in hachure, and other geographical features. The map was originally drawn by Jasper Nantiat, who used maps from the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Much of the cartographic information included is derived directly from the Russian Atlas published in 1806. It was originally published by William Faden in 1808. After Faden's death in 1836, this map's plates were acquired by James Wyld. The recent imperialist rivalry with Russia, especially in Central Asia, had renewed British interest in the country. These tensions led to the Crimean War a little over a decade later. James Wyld (1812-1887) was a British publisher and cartographer. His greatest geographical achievement was Wyld's Great Globe, exhibited in Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862. The globe, sixty feet high and lighted with gas, was at that point the largest ever constructed. He was geographer to Queen Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Albert. Condition: Two vertical folds in each sheet, as issued. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £400.00 |
| Stock ID | 41844 |