Brazil

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. The fine engraved map is showing Brazil with many details, the South Atlantic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean. The map is decorated with five finely hand colored engraved vignettes: boats on the Rio Negro, Cape St. Antonio Bahia, city views from St. Catharina, Rio de Janeiro and Monte Video. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.