Historic Map : Mitchell Map of France, 1849, Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Mitchell Map of France, 1849, Vintage Wall ArtThis is an attractive example of S. A. Mitchell's 1849 map of France. Each of France's 32 provinces are identified by number and associated with a table at the left border. Insets in the upper right and left quadrants focus on the environs of Paris and the island of Corsica, respectively. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style

This is an attractive example of S. A. Mitchell's 1849 map of France. Each of France's 32 provinces are identified by number and associated with a table at the left border. Insets in the upper right and left quadrants focus on the environs of Paris and the island of Corsica, respectively. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure.

The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Mitchell published this chart in his atlas from 1846 to the late 1850s before discontinuing the series and selling his map plates to DeSilver. This map was issued in the 1849 edition of the New Universal Atlas. It was the last edition of that atlas to be published by Mitchell prior to selling the plates and rights to the atlas to Thomas Cowperthwait in 1850.