Belgium & Luxembourg

35x27 cm

BELGIUM
Drawn and engraved on steel by J. Rapkin with vignettes drawn by various artists and engraved by J. Rogers, this series of finely engraved maps were first published in parts from the end of the 1840's and issued as a complete volume, The Illustrated Atlas in 1851. The work was re-issued a number of times until about 1865 and the maps were then used by Montgomery Martin, the author of the text in the Illustrated Atlas, in his British Colonies from 1854. The final appearance of the maps, with vignettes erased from the plate, was in geographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias until about 1880. 
Vignettes of Antwerp Cathedral, The Plains of Waterloo, Altar of St Gudule and Belgium armorial.
Good example from The Illustrated Atlas in original hand outline colour.