John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher.Boase, F., ''Modern English biography'', 6 vols, 1892-1921 His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in

Cripplegate Cripplegate was a city gate, gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London, England. The Cripplegate gate lent its name to the Cripplegate Wards of the City of London, ward of the City, which encompasses the area where the gat ...

in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis & Company. He started the ''

Illustrated News of the World An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vi ...

'' which issued engraved portraits as supplements in a series entitled ‘National Portrait Gallery of eminent personages' in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. The series was subsequently republished in a number of separate volumes. He lived in

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, South East London. His house on New Cross Road is listed as a Building of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, grade II. It has a

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on the wall to signal the event.Historical plaques about John Tallis
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Gallery

File:John-Tallis-1851-Tibet-Mongolia-and-Manchuria-33621.jpg, Map of the northern and western part of the Chinese Empire - "Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria", from Tallis' atlas of the world (1851) File:Modern Palestine, Illustrated atlas, and modern history of the World, 1851.jpg, Map of Palestine in 1851, showing the

Kaza A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...

subdivisions. At the time, the region shown was split between the

Sidon Eyalet The Eyalet of Sidon (; ) was an eyalet (also known as a ''beylerbeylik'') of the Ottoman Empire. In the 19th century, the eyalet extended from the border with Egypt to the Bay of Kisrawan, including parts of modern Israel and Lebanon. Depending ...

and the

Damascus Eyalet Damascus Eyalet (; ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was . It became an eyalet after the Ottomans took it from the Mamluks following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War. By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan ...

File:1850 Tallis Map of the Cape Colony.png, 1850 Tallis Map of the Cape Colony File:1851 Tallis map of British Possessions in the Mediterranean (engraved by John Rapkin).jpg, 1851 Tallis map of

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in the Mediterranean (engraved by John Rapkin) File:1851 Tallis Map of Mexico, Texas, and California - Geographicus - MexicoTexas2-tallis-1851.jpg, 1851 Tallis Map of Mexico File:Map titled 'Kabul, the Punjab, and Balochistan', by John Tallis, London, 1851.png, Map titled 'Kabul, the Punjab, and Balochistan', by John Tallis, London, 1851 File:Map of British India, showing principal administrative divisions, London & New York, 1851.png, Map of British India, showing principal administrative divisions, London & New York, 1851

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John Tallis London Street Views 1838-1840
A collection of sketches of London streets and businesses from the early Victorian era 1817 births 1876 deaths Publishers (people) from London English cartographers 19th-century British newspaper publishers (people) 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-business-bio-stub