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Rigobert Bonne: L'Empire de la Chine d'Apres L'Atlas Chinois avec Les Isles du Japon.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rigobert Bonne  (1727–1794)  wikidata:Q721492
 
Alternative names
epiphane
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 1795
Location of birth/death Raucourt (Ardennes) Paris
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Pontault-Combault Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q721492
Title
L'Empire de la Chine d'Apres L'Atlas Chinois avec Les Isles du Japon.
Description
English: A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's c. 1770 decorative map of China, Korea (Corea), Japan and Formosa (Taiwan). Extends from Tibet and Chinese Tartary east to Japan and south to Hainan. China is divided into various provinces with major cities, lakes, and riverways notes. Names Macao, Canton, Nanking (Nanjing), Jedo (Tokyo), Peking (Beijing) and countless other cities. The lower right quadrant is decorated with an elaborate title cartouche showing an Chinese scholar or monk relaxing with a bird in a forest under a parasol. Drawn by R. Bonne c. 1770 for issue as plate no. 35 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1770 (undated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 18 in (45.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,18U218593
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Geographicus link: China-bonne-1770
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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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