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

This is a beautiful 1849 map of Arkansas by Samuel Augustus Mitchell. 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. Along the upper border Steam Boat routes along with distances are presented in tabular format. .

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.