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Jean Janvier: Partie Meridionale Des Pays Bas, Comprenant les Provinces de Brabant, Gueldre, Limbourg, Luxembourg, Haynaut, Namur, Flandre, Cambresis et Artois.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
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
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Partie Meridionale Des Pays Bas, Comprenant les Provinces de Brabant, Gueldre, Limbourg, Luxembourg, Haynaut, Namur, Flandre, Cambresis et Artois.
Description
English: A beautiful example of Jean Janvier's decorative map of the southern portions of the Pays Bas. Covers modern day Belgium and Luxembourg, with adjacent parts of France, Holland and Germany. Divided into counties and duchies 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 1771 for issue as plate no. 6 in Jean Lattre's 1776 edition of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1771 (undated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 17.5 in (44.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17.5U218593
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Geographicus link: BelgiumLuxembourg-janvier-1771
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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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