Somerset Maps

24x18 cm

WASH HAND COLOUR.

SOMERSETSHIRE
Drawn & Engraved by J. Archer, Pentonville, London.
First published in Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales Delineated…by Thomas Dugdale by L.Tallis in 1842. The work was re-issued a number of times until 1860. The maps also appeared in The Universal English Dictionary…by the Rev. James Barclay and finally in Tallis's topographical dictionary of England & Wales in 1860.
Joshua Archer (c.1792-1863), Engraver, cartographer and copperplate printer, born in Barnstaple in Devon. His first recorded work as an engraver was a map of Scotland for Robert Wilkinson in 1814. He was declared bankrupt in 1835, imprisoned for debt in 1845 but recorded as a map and chart engraver aged 69, on the 1861 census, living in Islington with his wife, Jane, a son, John, also a map and chart engraver, and Albert Archer, map and chart draughtsman, with his wife Elizabeth and three children. 

This example is from the 1858 edition of Dugdale's Curiosities in original wash hand colour.

Ref. Chubb Printed Maps of Somerset p.129