Sidney Hall
Illustration — Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by Sidney Hall (1830) Sidney Hall (1788?–1831) was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century atlases containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world reproduced from Hall's engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases at a time when cartography and atlases were very popular. He also engraved a series of cards for the various constellations, published c.1825 in a boxed set called Urania's Mirror. • Illustration — Sidney Hall's punched star chart of the constellation Auriga.
Sidney Hall
Sidney Hall · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1788
- Died
- 1831
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- cartographer · copper engraver
- Languages
- English
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Hall engraved maps for William Faden, Aaron Arrowsmith, and Chapman & Hall, among many others. In 1809 he operated at 5 Vine Street, Picadilly, London. In 1814 he was in partnership with Michael Thomson operating at 14 Bury Street in the Bloomsbury District and later was listed at 18 Bury Street. Hall died in 1831 at the age of 42. The business was carried on by map engraver Selina Hall, his widow.
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Sidney Hall lived from 1788 to 1831 and was a copperplate engraver and cartographer. The birth of Sidney Hall is recorded in 1788, and the death in 1831.
Sidney Hall is recorded as cartographer and copper engraver.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Sidney Hall is London.
Above, a dog from the arctic highlands; below, a sledge, a whip and a knife. Etching by S. Hall., 1819, by Sidney Hall
Sidney Hall · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Astrology: various constellations. Coloured engraving by S. Hall., by Sidney Hall
Sidney Hall · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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1788
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1831
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