Historic Map : Wilkinson Antique Map of Silesia, 1794, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 The image is printed using

The image is printed using a color lithographic process on what appears to be a traditional Guatemalan made paper

large decorative title cartouche appears in the upper right quadrant

Covers territorial Washington and Oregon including the modern day state of Idaho

Shows many of the public buildings on Blackwell's Island (Roosevelt Island) including the decrepit Civil War Hospital that still stands at the southern end of the Island

This particular example is the first of this series in which the government buildings appear at the top of the map

Historic Map : Wilkinson Antique Map of Silesia, 1794, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 The image is printed usingA finely detailed first edition 1794 map of Silesia by Robert Wilkinson, in what was then part of the Holy Roman empire. The map details the principalities within this duchy, which was bordered by Poland, Hungary, Moravia, Bohemia and Lusatia. Silesia passed from Habsburg to Prussian control in 1740. In 1806 Napoleon's French forces invaded, dissolving the Holy Roman empire and ultimately inspiring the events leading to the unification of Germany in