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JH Colton New Hampshire Hand-Colored Engraving 1850s
Description: Engraving with hand-color on paper, framed (no glass). Title printed upper left: "New Hampshire". Printed upper left: "Published by/J.H. Colton & Co./No172 William St/New York.". Dimensions: Image: 16 x 13in. Frame: 22 1/4 x 18in. Weight: 2.5lbs. (Box G) Condition: Attached to mat by adhesive along edges verso. Heavy darkening to paper throughout. Two significant tears to paper, one 2 1/2in. horizontal tear located along centerfold 8in. from upper edge at right margin, second 1 3/4in. tear to paper located 2 3/4in. from lower right corner at lower edge. Creasing to paper throughout. Few small areas of scattered staining throughout. Otherwise, fair condition overall. Artist's Biography:
JH Colton was one of the pre-eminent American map publishing firms in the mid-19th Century. For over 60 years, the Colton family was one the most prolific and successful map publishers of maps and atlases in the United States. Joseph Hutchins Colton was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1830. Colton worked in a general merchandise store in Lennox, Massachusetts from 1816 to 1829, when he became the night clerk at the United States Post Office in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1830, he relocated to New York City, where he humbly began his publishing business in 1831, although the first item known to bear his imprint is dated 1833.In 1855, Colton finally issued his first atlas, Coltons Atlas of the World issued in two volumes in 1855 and 1856, but later in 1857, the work was reduced to a single volume under the title of Coltons General Atlas, which was published in largely the same format until 1888. It is in this work that George Woolworth (GW) Coltons name appears for the first time. Born in Lennox in 1827 and lacking formal training as a mapmaker, GW Colton joined his fathers business and would later help it to thrive. His brother Charles B. (CB) Colton would also join the firm. [Source: ]
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