Ireland, Large Antique Map with Round Towers Table, Charles Knight, 1845
US$437
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1845
Mapmaker / artist
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London; engraved by John and Charles Walker
Publisher
Charles Knight and Company, 22 Ludgate Street, London
Technique
Steel Engraving
Coloring
Original hand color
Sheet size
62 × 52 cm (24.4 × 20.5 in)
Condition
Fair
Reference
BG-14487-2-23
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
Light overall age toning, with a horizontal fold across the sheet and a shorter vertical fold at the left, light soiling along the edges, and the engraved border running close to the sheet edge.
About this sheet
This large antique map of Ireland is the Society's two sheet map printed and joined as one large sheet, which gives the island at a far larger scale than the ordinary atlas map. The whole country is shown in close engraved detail, with the counties bounded in hand applied red, green, orange and yellow and the mountains of Donegal, Connemara, Kerry, Wicklow and Mourne worked in dense hachure that gives the uplands real weight. Three engraved tables accompany the map. The large one at the upper left lists the Irish round towers by town and county, running to well over a hundred entries, with a note on these singular structures. A smaller table at the foot gives the reservoirs of the lakes with their areas in square miles. A third set of statistical tables at the lower right gives figures for every county of Leinster, Ulster, Connaught and Munster.
The plate comes from Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in the new edition corrected to the present time that Charles Knight and Company published at 22 Ludgate Street, London, in 1845, whose first volume covers Europe. The Society was founded in 1826 by Henry Brougham and his circle to publish useful knowledge at a low price. Its maps were issued in parts from 1829, first by Baldwin and Cradock, from 1842 by Chapman and Hall and then by Charles Knight, and the series grew to about two hundred maps. Most of them were engraved on steel by John and Charles Walker, and the outline color was applied by hand.
The plate is signed by J. and C. Walker as engravers. The imprint at the foot names Charles Knight and Company of 22 Ludgate Street, London.
Light overall age toning, with a horizontal fold across the sheet and a shorter vertical fold at the left, light soiling along the edges, and the engraved border running close to the sheet edge.
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.
