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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Italy.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Italy.
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English: A beautiful example of A. J. Johnson’s 1866 map of Italy. Johnson first introduced this map in his 1863 atlas and it represents a substantial re-engraving of his original two part plate. Johnson's reconsideration of his Italy map was most likely related to Italy's unification in the 1860s. No longer a collection of independent states, Italy now needed to be represented as a cohesive whole. In order to accommodate this Johnson reorients his map to the northwest , allowing the boot to fill a single vertical page while leaving space to fully depict Sardinia and Corsica. In the lower right quadrant there is a inset map of Malta. Throughout, Johnson identifies various cities, towns, rivers and assortment of additional topographical details. Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1864 to 1869. Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate numbers 88 and 89 in the 1866 edition of Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas .
Date 1866 (dated 1863)
Dimensions height: 24 in (60.9 cm); width: 17 in (43.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17U218593
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of The World with Physical Geography, and with Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, and Historic including The Latest Federal Census, A Geographical Index, and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America, 1866.

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