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Jean Janvier: L'Europe divisee en ses Principaux Etats.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean Janvier  (fl. 1746–1776)  wikidata:Q58129096
 
Alternative names
Robert Janvier; Le Sieur Janvier
Description French geographer and cartographer
Work period 1746 Edit this at Wikidata–1776 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q58129096
Title
L'Europe divisee en ses Principaux Etats.
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English: A beautiful example of Jean Janvier's decorative map of the Europe. Covers from Iceland to the Caspian Sea and from North Africa to the Arctic. Divided into countries and kingdoms with color coding according to region. Offers excellent detail throughout showing mountains, rivers, forests, national boundaries, regional boundaries, forts, and cities. A large decorative title cartouche appears in the upper left quadrant. Drawn by Jean Janvier in 1762 for issue as plate no. 2 in Jean Lattre's 1776 edition of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1762 (dated)
Dimensions height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 18 in (45.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,18U218593
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Geographicus link: Europe-janvier-1762
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Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.

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