Set of 2 Map of Discovery, Nc Wyeth, 1928

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Beautiful pair of maps of the World, illustrating the remarkable work of the noted American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Lithograph, 1928. … more Beautiful pair of maps of the World, illustrating the remarkable work of the noted American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Lithograph, 1928. Dimensions are 17" x 18.5"

N. C. Wyeth was commissioned in 1928 by the National Geographic Society to paint 5 murals in their buildings in Washington, D. C. Four of the murals appeared as frontispieces in the National Geographical Magazine.

The legend of the Eastern Hemisphere map reads: "While simulating the illuminated mariners' charts of the Sixteenth Century, which pictorially dramatized the deeds of dauntless explorers, this map of the Eastern Hemisphere records present-day political boundaries. It also traces the routes of the great discoverers who sailed strange seas and penetrated misty continents to add new areas to the known world."

The legend of the Western Hemisphere map reads: "Painted in quaint Sixteenth Century style, this chart of the Western Hemisphere suggests the imagination that launched intrepid explorers to the ends of the earth, yet records accurately the boundaries of to-day. On it are traced the paths, plowed through virgin seas and blazed across unknown continents, that gave to man a realization of the true magnitude of his world." less