Tallis' Map of Nova Scotia Illustrator(s)_James Richard Barfoot verstingen en versterkingen

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Among the most handsome of the large-scale panoramas of Venice

The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti menacing an astonished personification of France and a battle fought in the shadow of the Alps) probably refers to the Nine Years’ War and the invasion of the region by the Duke of Savoy in 1692

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Vignettes including Antwerp cathedral and monuments on the plains of Waterloo were engraved by James Baylis Allen

Tallis' Map of Nova Scotia Illustrator(s)_James Richard Barfoot verstingen en versterkingenThis map of Nova Scotia was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular Illustrated Atlas; it includes black and white vignettes of Halifax, Ontario, and a cod fishery, engraved by John Rogers after A. Fussell. Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 27 x 33 cm, original outline colour, imprint in lower margin cut close, blank verso