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C1873
Map of the Burman Empire Including also Siam, Cochin-China, Ton-King and Malaya from Calcutta to Hong Kong
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Detailed c.19th map of Southeast Asia with the British territories coloured in pink, Burmese in green and Siamese (Thai) in blue. The Strait Settlements were established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Map of the Burman Empire Including also Siam, Cochin-China, Ton-King and Malaya from Calcutta to Hong Kong
Date:
C1873
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
440mm
x 520mm
Paper Size:
435mm
x 585mm
Platemark Size:
380mm
x 465mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1873
Description:
Detailed c.19th map of Southeast Asia with the British territories coloured in pink, Burmese in green and Siamese (Thai) in blue.
The Strait Settlements were established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, they came under direct British control as a Crown colony on 1 April 1867.
This map is from the 1873 issue of James Wyld’s atlas and not, as often incorrectly stated, from the first issue of the atlas.
It differs from the earlier issue by the following:
1. The plate number 24 at top right
2. Lacks the 2nd line of the publication information, ‘Model of the Earth, Leicester Square’ Â
3. Printed on different paper
Wyld,James: A new general atlas of modern geography consisting of a complete collection of maps of the four quarters of the globe delineating their physical features and coloured to show the limits ……
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3255502
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1046864
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers SC/X2 (1858-1863)
State Library Victoria: MAPEF 912 W97N (1850)
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3255502
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1046864
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers SC/X2 (1858-1863)
State Library Victoria: MAPEF 912 W97N (1850)
James Hope Wyld (1812 - 1887)
Wyld the younger was born in 1812 and was a highly-regarded British mapmaker known for producing maps with the most recently-acquired information. He was educated at Woolwich, in preparation for joining the army, but at 18 he joined his father, James Wyld the elder, in the map publishing business. Like his father, he was held in high esteem and would come to hold 17 European orders of merit during his life. He showed a flare for business and when his father died in 1836, he became the sole proprietor. In 1839, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and appointed Royal Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1839, a post his father had held prior to his death. He was famous for his prolific and up-to-date mapmaking, so much so that the satirical newspaper Punch wrote in 1849 that Wyld ‘makes it his business to see further than anyone else’ and that if a new country were to be found in the centre of the earth, Wyld’s skills were such that he would in no time create a ‘Grand Map of that delightful spot, the Centre of the Earth, published for the use of Emigrants’, allowing travel from Sydney to London, not by land but through. This view was no doubt spurred by the construction of ‘Wyld’s Great Globe’, a spherical hall in the shape of a globe some 18 metres in diameter in which visitors could ‘see’ the world from the inside out. The attraction at London’s Leicester Square was second only to the Great Exhibition in visitor numbers. He ran the attraction while concurrently serving as a Whig Member of Parliament for the seat of Bodmin (1847-1852 and 1857-1868). He died in 1887 in Kensington after which his son James John Cooper Wyld, took over the business.
