Signed in the plate: "G.Child Sculp."
Engraving.
Plate 200, No 115, Vol 2. P404 from Thomas Salmon's "The Universal Traveller, or a Compleat Description of the several Nations of the World, 2 vols. London, 1752–3"
Not Inspected Out of the Frame.
George Child (Born 1706, active 1737 -1753) was an English engraver based in London.
Thomas Salmon (1679–1767) was an English historical and geographical writer. In 1739–40 Salmon accompanied George Anson on his voyage round the world.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Salmon_(historian))
Thomas Salmon’s 1755 map shows the location of Khoikhoi (“Hottentot”) tribes
in the Western Cape Province of South Africa in the early 1700s. The map also
shows many named geographical and cultural features of the region.
Construction of Salmon’s map was based largely on the work of other
investigators and map makers, particularly that of Peter Kolben. Kolben had
gathered a very large amount of information on the peoples and physical features
of the Western Cape, which he used to produce his book and first map of this
region in 1719. Salmon made relatively minor additions and changes (some of
which were incorrect) to Kolben’s later maps, which he used to derive his 1755
map. Salmon’s map is most significant in that it brought knowledge of this littleknown
region to the attention of a large 18th century audience by publishing it in
his widely-read “The Universal Traveller….”
(Source: https://www.academia.edu/60317154/An_analysis_of_Salmons_1755_map_A_Map_of_the_Country_of_the_Hottentots_towards_the_Cape_of_Good_Hope_)
- Overall Condition: As per photos
- Size: Frame size: 54.5 x 66.5cm
