1889 Ernst Wasmuth Antique Print Lithograph of Neo-classical European Decoration South America This fine hand coloured original

1889 Ernst Wasmuth Antique Print Lithograph of Neo classical European Decoration South America This fine hand coloured original This fine hand coloured original antique map of the Magellan Straits between the South American mainland and Tierra Del Fuego with major points discovered and remarked in a 9 point legend was engraved by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1753 the date is engraved in the title cartouche and was published in Antoine François Prevost's monumental 20 volume edition of L`Histoire Generale des Voyages published by Pierre de Hondt Wells initiated the founding of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) Ref: 70536 was published in two volumes between 1889 & 1896