Historic Map : Mitchell New York State, 1849, Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Mitchell New York State, 1849, Vintage Wall ArtThis is a beautiful 1849 map of New York State by legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell. Detailed to the county level, notes towns, canals, railroads, cities, rivers, and other topographical features throughout. Along the bottom, the map includes a profile of the Erie Canal. An index along the right border also notes details about steam boat routes from New York to Albany, Niagara Falls and to Philadelphia. The whole is engraved

This is a beautiful 1849 map of New York State by legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell. Detailed to the county level, notes towns, canals, railroads, cities, rivers, and other topographical features throughout. Along the bottom, the map includes a profile of the Erie Canal. An index along the right border also notes details about steam boat routes from New York to Albany, Niagara Falls and to Philadelphia. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels.

Mitchell published this chart in his atlas from 1846 to the late 1850s before discontinuing the series and selling his map plates to DeSilver. This map was issued in the 1849 edition of the New Universal Atlas. It was the last edition of that atlas to be published by Mitchell prior to selling the plates and rights to the atlas to Thomas Cowperthwait in 1850.