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Adina Sommer`s Rare Antique Maps and Contemporary Art
Africa (Sothern Sheet.)
Original:
160.00 €
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| Article ID | AF0471 |
| Artist | Colton/Hutchins (1800-1893) |
| Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800 –1893), known professionally as J.H. Colton, founded an American mapmaking company which was an international leader in the map publishing industry between 1831 and 1890. For the first ten years, Colton licensed the use of maps from established cartographers such as David H. Burr. Colton also employed some of the preeminent engravers of the time, including Burr, Samuel Stiles, John Disturnell and D. Griffing Johnson. Colton went on to create railroad maps, immigrant guides, folding pocket maps, large wall maps, and elaborate atlases. | |
| Title | Africa (Sothern Sheet.) |
| Year | c. 1855 |
| Description | Map shows South Africa to the equator with Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Amirantes, Mauritius and the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. According to the "Out-of-Africa theory", Africa is considered the "cradle of mankind", where homo development led to the development of the anatomically modern human Homo sapiens. One of the earliest advanced civilizations in mankind was formed in ancient Egypt. Over the millennia, various "great empires" such as the Empire of Abyssinia emerged on the continent. There were other kingdoms in West Africa, such as the Ashanti and Haussa, but they emerged much later. There were also some important cultures in East and South Africa, as in the area of today's Sudan, then called Nubia or Kush. Nubian pharaohs ruled all of Egypt for a dynasty. For example, the inhabitants of Greater Zimbabwe were important cultures in southern Africa. This stone castle was architecturally a masterpiece at that time and important for trade between the peoples of the south and east. The Swahili were known in East Africa. North Africa was connected to Europe and the Near East by the Mediterranean rather than separated. Carthage, a foundation of the Phoenicians in what is now Tunisia, was around the middle of the 1st millennium BC. The dominant power in the western Mediterranean until it was replaced by Rome in the Punic Wars. This prevailed from 30 BC. BC (conquest of Egypt) over all of North Africa. Even the ancient Egyptians (Queen Hatshepsut) made trips to Punt, probably in what is now Somalia. The kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, which probably had its center in southern Arabia, is said to have spanned parts of the Horn from Africa to the north of Ethiopia. |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Dimensions (cm) | 32 x 41 cm |
| Condition | Tears at the external margin restored |
| Coloring | original colored |
| Technique | Lithography |
Reproduction:
24.00 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )