£20 John Russell
1799
Ref: dsm4806
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FRANCE, Divided into MILITARY GOVERNMENTS. DRAWN from the best AUTHORITIES, BY J. RUSSELL
Engraved for Guthrie's New System of Geography.
Published as the Act directs by C.Dilly and G.G.& J.Robinson Sept:r 1.st 1799.
John Russell (1750?-1829), cartographer engraver and printer, was apprenticed to engraver and mapmaker William Palmer on 3rd April 1765 and recorded as the son of John Russell, gunlock-maker of Great Minories, London. Free on 5th August 1772 he had various addresses in Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, Grays Inn Road and Camden Town until 1818. He died at Beckenham aged seventy eight, leaving a son John Charles Russell (1773-1848), aslo engraver and copperplate printer.
Original outline colour. Small top margin. Old repair to centrefold split.
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