Whole of France

FRANCE
Drawn & Engraved by J. Archer, Pentonville, London. 

Steel engraving by Joshua Archer published in The College Atlas for Schools and Families... H.G. Collins, London 1850. 

Joshua Archer (c.1792-1863), Engraver, cartographer and copperplate printer, was 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 on the 1861 census, he is recorded as a map and chart engraver aged 69, living in Islington with his wife Jane, a son, John, also a map and chart engraver, Albert Archer, map and chart draughtsman, Albert’s wife Elizabeth and their three children. His death was recorded at Islington in 1863.

Original hand colour depicting the 32 provinces. Inset map of Corsica. Some chipping to paper edges not affecting the printed area.