United States. Original antique map by Sidney Hall. Published in 1840 by Longman. Original colour.

Original antique copper engraved map
With original hand-colouring
Engraved by S. Hall,
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1840

Sidney Hall was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century atlases containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world reproduced from Hall’s engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases at a time when cartography and atlases were very popular. He also engraved a series of cards for the various constellations, published c.1825 in a boxed set called Urania’s Mirror.

Hall engraved maps forWilliam Faden,Aaron Arrowsmith, andChapman & Hall, among many others.

Hall is credited with “almost certainly” being the first engraver to use steel plates in map engraving.