ENGLISH CHANNEL ENGLAND FRANCE 1814 THOMSON ANTIQUE ORIGINAL STEEL ENGRAVED MAP

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Double your traffic. The British Channel. Description: Striking and hightly detailed John Thomson’s 1814 map of the British or English Channel. Depicts England from Cornwall eastward as far as Canterbury and the Strait of Dover. Extends northward as far as Pembroke Shire and St. Brides Bay. Includes London and the Isle of Wright. On the opposite side of the English Channel this map covers from Goulet Harbor eastward to Boulogne. Minimal inland detail but excellent coastal coverage is offered throughout. During the Napoleonic Wars, which would end at Waterloo just one year after this map was engraved, the English Channel became a major hotbed of smuggling and war profiteering, with English textiles flooding into continental Europe. Thomson maps are known for their stunning color and size, and represent some of the finest cartographic art of the 19th century. Date: 1814 ( dated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 71,2 x 53,8 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on strong paper. Paper with chains. Original colors. T op and lower margins missed. Wide right lateral margin. Wide left lateral margin. Small foxing. Small tears. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: John Thomson was one of the leading masters of the Edinburgh school of cartography which flourished from roughly 1800 to 1830. Thomson & his contemporaries read more

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