Germany

37x49 cm

GERMANY, PART I.
GERMANY, PART II.
Engraved by S. Hall Bury Str.^t Bloomsb.^y 

Steel engraving by Selina Hall (1780?-1853) for Blacks General Atlas...Adam & Charles Black, 1840.

Maps with the signature S. Hall are often credited to the engraver Sidney Hall (1788?-1831), but Hall married Selina Price (1780?-1853) in 1821 and his engraving business was continued by his wife after his death in 1831 who signed her maps simply S.Hall. She was obviously a highly skilled engraver, presumably trained by her husband and stylitsticaly there seems to be little difference in their work giving credence to the possibility that Selina was responsible for some of his output towards the end of his carreer. Sidney Hall usually signed his maps “Sid.y Hall” so it is reasonable to assume that maps produced around the time of his death signed “S.Hall” are probably by Selina Hall and clearly any maps signed S.Hall produced after 1831 will be by Selina. She is recorded as an engraver on the 1842 Census, living in Bury Street with a servant. She was buried 23 Nov. 1853 at St. George Bloomsbury. In her will, she left her books, maps etc., to her nephew Edward Weller who continued the business.

 North and South sheets of Germany pasted together. Slight wrinkling at the pasting but a good clean map in original hand colour.