Antique Hobson Fox Hunting Map of Northumberland, Tynedale Hunt, circa 1870
€ 310
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
c. 1870
Mapmaker / artist
J. & C. Walker
Publisher
J. & C. Walker, London
Technique
Steel Engraving
Coloring
Original hand color
Condition
Fair
Reference
BG-14239-26
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Fair to good condition for its age. Age toning, brown stains with surface residue in the upper and lower left margins, a few small blue ink marks, light spotting and a central fold. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
From Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas comes this antique fox hunting map of Northumberland, engraved by J. and C. Walker circa 1870 and colored by hand to show three hunt countries. Lord Elcho's country, in pink, crosses the south around Hexham and the Tyne valley; Tindale, in yellow, runs through the center-west toward the Cumberland border; and Mr Watson's country, in blue, lies in the north around Wooler and the Cheviots. The wild border country north and west of these boundaries, and the industrial Tyneside district around Newcastle in the south-east, are left uncolored.
The Roman Wall is traced across the center of the sheet as a dotted line along its course from east to west, and the Cheviot Hills are rendered in heavy hachure with the principal peaks named. A reference table for the wards sits at lower left, and the cartouche, with the county name and the Walker imprint, occupies the upper right beside the compass star, the plate numbered 26.
Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas, compiled by William Colling Hobson and published by Longman and Company of Paternoster Row, London, first appeared around 1850 and was reissued into the 1870s; this sheet is from the edition of circa 1870. The plates were steel engraved by J. and C. Walker, and the boundaries of the hunt countries were added in original hand color, in outline, with the places of meeting of the foxhounds marked alongside roads, railways, canals and parks. The sheet records a sparsely hunted county at this date, its named countries confined to the more settled ground in the south and center.
For hunting families, county collectors and anyone with a connection to the place, this antique fox hunting map of Northumberland is an original atlas sheet, well suited to framing.
The sheet is in fair to good condition for its age, with age toning, brown stains with surface residue in the upper and lower left margins, a few small blue ink marks, light spotting and a central fold. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
