Africa (Southern Sheet): Colton 1855

Title: Africa (Southern Sheet) Author: J. H. Colton Date: 1855 Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Condition: Good - age toning, light foxing, fragile paper Inches: 17 x 14 [Paper] Centimeters: 43.18 x 35.56 [Paper] Product ID: 318077 Map of south Africa labeling various nations and European colonies. Includes the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Madagascar. Marks various cities, topographical features, and information about the region's Native people. 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 with this business model, Colton branched out to produce original maps, and by the 1850s had grown his company into a boo