Historic Map : Mitchell Map of Tennessee, 1849, Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Mitchell Map of Tennessee, 1849, Vintage Wall ArtThis is a lovely map of Tennessee by Samuel Augustus Mitchell dating to 1849. The map covers the entire state in beautiful detail and includes two insets. The inset in the top left features the Environs of Nashville, while the second inset in the top right depicts the Environs of Knoin xville. Steam Boat routes along with distances in tabular format are presented along the lower right border. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive

This is a lovely map of Tennessee by Samuel Augustus Mitchell dating to 1849. The map covers the entire state in beautiful detail and includes two insets. The inset in the top left features the Environs of Nashville, while the second inset in the top right depicts the Environs of Knoin xville. Steam Boat routes along with distances in tabular format are presented along the lower right border. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure.

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.