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Jean Janvier: Russie D'Europe avec la partie la plus peuplee de celle D'Asie.   (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
Title
Russie D'Europe avec la partie la plus peuplee de celle D'Asie.
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English: A beautiful example of Jan Janvier's curious decorative map of Western Russia. Covers from Poland and the Baltic Sea eastward as far as Ilimskoy, Siberia, extends south to the Black Sea and north as far as Nouvelle Zembla and the Arctic Sea. Ostensibly focuses on the most inhabited portions of the Russian empire in Europe and Asia. Offers excellent detail throughout showing mountains, rivers, forests, national boundaries, regional boundaries, forts, and cities. A large decorative title appears in the upper right quadrant. Upper left quadrant features an advertisement. Drawn by Jan Janvier around 1775 for issue as plate no. 22 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1775 (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: RussiaWest-janvier-1775
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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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