Africa (North Western Sheet): Colton 1855

Title: Africa (North Western Sheet) Author: J. H. Colton Date: 1855 Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Condition: Good - age toning, light foxing, fragile paper Inches: 14 x 17 [Paper] Centimeters: 35.56 x 43.18 [Paper] Product ID: 318078 Map of northwest Africa. Marks various cities, topographical features, land routes, and information about the region's Native people. Includes the Canary Islands, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Madeira Isles, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic Islands, and parts of Spain and Italy. Lower left features an inset of Liberia. Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) moved to New York City from his birthplace of Longmeadow, Massachusetts to start the J.H. Colton Company in 1831. Though he did not come from a cartographic or engraving background, Colton licensed copyrights from other cartographers such as David H. Burr and Samuel Stiles, producing quality reprints with additional engraving and border detail. After ten years of operating wit