Fine engraved map on six sheets joined
The artist showed American expansion as a fated conclusion
Ascensión also published descriptions of the insular geography in Juan Torquemada’s Monarquia Indiana (1613) (with the island details curtailed somewhat) and in his own Relación breve of ca
including Britain's own aspirations for possession of Texas and part of the disputed regions in Oregon Territory
the forests of the north
Bear Hunting Cartographer_Thomas Johnston Fine engraved map on sixWILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) Bear Hunting Pen and ink and watercolor Signed W. P lower left Paper size: 9 5 8 x 11 3 4 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September 1989 (a selection) Like his fellow