The Illustrated Plan of London and its Environs, in commemoration of The Great Exhibition - a map of Victorian London by J. Tallis and J. Rapkin, 1851 art print poster canvas gift Montgolfier brothers first ascent Paris and hand-coloured the printed illustrations

and hand-coloured the printed illustrations

where many wounded soldiers from both the French and Allied armies were taken

Gessner's woodcut of a giant sea serpent attacking a ship is notably similar to one by Olaus Magnus in his History of the Northern Peoples published in 1555

and afterwards surveyed a large part of Dorset

The Illustrated Plan of London and its Environs, in commemoration of The Great Exhibition - a map of Victorian London by J. Tallis and J. Rapkin, 1851 art print poster canvas gift Montgolfier brothers first ascent Paris and hand-coloured the printed illustrationsThe Illustrated Plan of London and its Environs, in commemoration of The Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations, 1851. A magnificent, highly decorative map of Victorian London. Engraved by John Rapkin and published by John Tallis in London, in 1851. "The Illustrated Plan of London and its Environs in commemoration of The Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations, 1851" is considered as the most attractive map of London published in 19th