Clark, Richard | A scarce wall map of Fairfield County

Clark, Richard

Clark's Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Philadelphia: Richard Clark, 1856

Lithographic wall map (sheet size: 1,537 x 1,467 mm). Full period hand-color; expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, edged with silk, on contemporary rollers. 

An elaborate and detailed wall map of Fairfield County, Connecticut

Fairfield is the site of some of New York City's most prestigious suburbs. Each township is separately colored, with the properties of numerous individual landowners located. The map is flanked by sixteen inset views of important Fairfield sites, including numerous private residences, and the Court House in Bridgeport. The views are separated by ornamental Victorian scrollwork. There are twenty-four inset plans of Fairfield towns and villages, including Greenwich, Stamford, Ridgefield, New Canaan, Westport, Danbury, Bridgeport, Southport, Sharon, Bethel, Fairfield, Norwalk, South Norwalk, Newtown, New Fairfield, Brookfield, and Cos Cob. The map was drawn from a survey by J. Chace, W. J. Barker, and N. Hector, and lithographed by Wagner & McGuigan in Philadelphia.

The only 19th-century map of the county listed in Phillips' America

REFERENCE

Not in Rumsey; Thompson, Maps of Connecticut 176; Phillips, America 276