Africa

33x26 cm

Cape Colony

Drawn and engraved on steel by J. Rapkin, this series of maps were first issued in parts from the end of the 1840's and published in 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.
This map of Cape Colony is from the later geographical dictionaries with the vignettes erased from the plate.