Tallis' Map of Nova Scotia Illustrator(s)_James Richard Barfoot enquiry offices and similar venues

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Vignettes including Antwerp cathedral and monuments on the plains of Waterloo were engraved by James Baylis Allen

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Uxbridge

The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti menacing an astonished personification of France and a battle fought in the shadow of the Alps) probably refers to the Nine Years’ War and the invasion of the region by the Duke of Savoy in 1692

with Lotter’s imprint

Tallis' Map of Nova Scotia Illustrator(s)_James Richard Barfoot enquiry offices and similar venuesThis map of Nova Scotia was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular Illustrated Atlas; it includes black and white vignettes of Halifax, Ontario, and a cod fishery, engraved by John Rogers after A. Fussell. Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 27 x 33 cm, original outline colour, imprint in lower margin cut close, blank verso