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Sidney Hall (1788?–1831) was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century 
Hall engraved maps for William Faden, Aaron Arrowsmith, and
atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth.
Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geograp ...
es containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world
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reproduced from Hall's engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases at a time when cartography
Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an ...
and atlases were very popular. He also engraved a series of cards for the various constellations, published c.1825 in a boxed set called '' Urania's Mirror''.Hall engraved maps for William Faden, Aaron Arrowsmith, and Chapman & Hall
Chapman & Hall is an Imprint (trade name), imprint owned by CRC Press, originally founded as a United Kingdom, British publishing house in London in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman (publisher), Edward Chapman and William Hall ...
, among many others.
In 1809 he operated at 5 Vine Street, Picadilly, London. In 1814 he was in partnership with Michael Thomson operating at 14 Bury Street in the Bloomsbury District and later was listed at 18 Bury Street. Hall is credited with "almost certainly" being the first engraver to use steel plates in map engraving.
Hall died in 1831 at the age of 42. The business was carried on by map engraver Selina Hall
Selina Hall (1780?–1853) was a British engraver and printer in London who prepared maps for several well-known works including John Gorton's ''A Topographical Dictionary'', Charles Black's ''1840 General Atlas'' and several Chapman & Hall publ ...
, his widow.
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* 1788 births 1831 deaths British engravers British cartographers 19th-century British printmakers {{UK-printmaker-stub