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Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia - With Vignettes of Jason Islands, Pengui

South America / Patagonia – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Falkland Islands and Patagonia – With Vignettes of Jason Islands, Penguins, Sea Eagles, Fugeans, and Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Winkles and Engraved by W. Lacey. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 25 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

Two beautiful maps of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and Patagonia bordered by a decorative boundary.
In the upper section the islands of the Falkands are shown and identified: West Falkland and East Falkland the chief among them. Hachuring depicts relief and the few rivers shown are identified. A bar-scale lies beneath the islands.
In the lower section is Patagonia and the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magallanes. The names and locations of the indigenous ‘wandering tribes of Indians’ are shown on the map also: ‘Teheul-het’ or Southern People, the ‘Puel-che’ or Eastern People, the ‘Chulilon’ and ‘Moluche’ Indians. The plethora of offshore islands, such as Chiloe Island in the Gulf of Ancud in the Pacific, and peninsular points, like the Peninsula of S. Josef on the Atlantic side, are identified. To the east the West Falkand can be seen. A bar-scale is in the lower right corner of the map.

John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851.
Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. (Wikipedia)

The most important project John Tallis undertook, was the ‘Illustrated Atlas’ from 1851. The original map we offer here, was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin (1815-1876) and it was Rapkin’s style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes, people in their environment and even more so, historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities, architecture and landscape.

The project of ‘The Illustrated Atlas’ was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations” or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World’s Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century, and it was a much anticipated event.

The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time, including Charles Darwin, Samuel Colt, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen’s procession was “under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett”. (Wikipedia)

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Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia
Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia
Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia
Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia
Tallis, Falkland Islands and Patagonia