Plan of the Battle of Alma

Method Steel engraved with hand colour
Artist Rapkin, John
Published The London Printing and Publishing Company, [c. 1855]
Dimensions 345 x 253 mm
Notes A map illustrating the Battle of Alma on the 14th of September 1854, featuring a hand coloured key to the different armed forces. From Henry Tyrrell's The History of the War with Russia c. 1855.

John Rapkin (1815-1876) was an engraver and mapmaker active in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. He drew and engraved the maps for John Tallis' The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World (1845-51), which was later re-issued by the London Printing and Publishing Company. He also drew and engraved maps for R. Montgomery Martin's British Colonies, their history (1849), and Wright's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary (c.1850).

Condition: Horizontal centrefold as issued. Overall time toning and dirt build up.
Framing unmounted
Price £85.00
Stock ID 43383

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