Drawn under the direction of Mr Aaron Arrowsmith and published as the Act directs Jan 1st 1807 by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row
Hand-coloured engraving
Not Inspected Out of the Frame.
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823) was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham, when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Cary, the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales c. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. Improperly called "Arrowsmith's projection," the globular projection used by Arrowsmith was invented by Giovan Battista Nicolosi, of Paternò, Sicily, in 1660, while Arrowsmith did not use it until 1794. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Arrowsmith)
- Overall Condition: As per photos
- Size: Frame size: 38.6 x 51.4cm
