Southern Italy.

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. The fine engraved map is showing Southern Italy with many details, the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Venice. The map is decorated with five finely hand colored engraved vignettes: the carneval in Venice, Naples and the Vesuvius, an festival of vintage and a picture of Benvento. 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.