Description

Antique hand coloured steel engraving, in commemoration of The Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations. Extremely unusual and one of the most decorative maps of London. Published by John Tallis & Co. in 1851.

John Tallis (1815 – 1876) English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Co, was based in London, and later expanded to Edinburgh, Dublin and New York. His most famous work was An Illustrated Atlas of the World. He worked closely with John Rapkin and incorporated vignettes commissioned from various artists.