Print of steel engraving titled „Vue de Chimborazo prise de Tapia Colombie“.

Author unknown.

Engraved by Shelton.

Published in „L‘Univers Pittoresque ou Histoire et description de tous les peuples“ . Paris. 1835 – 1841.

Chimborazo is a currently inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around 550 AD. With a peak elevation of 6,268 metres (20,564 ft), Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador. It is the highest peak near the equator. Chimborazo is not the highest mountain by elevation above sea level, but its location along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center.

Colombia officially the Republic of Colombia is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments.

Approx. image size 12, 3 x 8, 2/22 x 13, 6 cm. Condition: good.