ECL-Se.2:02/2-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Se.2:02/2-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
A new and exact map of France
Comments
Early outline colour
Description
Content (place)
France
Dimensions
height (actual size): 610mm
width (actual size): 980mm
width (actual size): 980mm
Inscription
Written in red pencil on back: 2
Written in ink on back: France 2
Written in pencil on back: No. 1 3 [?]
Annotation in ink in right margin of map:
Places through which passes the Meridien line drawn by Cassini and published in 1701
Dunkirk/Amiens/Paris/Aubigny/Bourges/Aurillac/Rodez/Alby/Carcassone.
Phil.Tran.V.4. p. 468/ Whence it appears that the last three towns are not exactly placed in this map.
Written in ink on back: France 2
Written in pencil on back: No. 1 3 [?]
Annotation in ink in right margin of map:
Places through which passes the Meridien line drawn by Cassini and published in 1701
Dunkirk/Amiens/Paris/Aubigny/Bourges/Aurillac/Rodez/Alby/Carcassone.
Phil.Tran.V.4. p. 468/ Whence it appears that the last three towns are not exactly placed in this map.
Materials & techniques note
Line engraving
Production
Person
Moll, Herman, c. 1654 - 1732 (Publisher)
Moll, Herman, c. 1654 - 1732 (mapmaker)
Midwinter, Daniel, fl. 1698 - 1725 (Publisher)
Overton, Philip, ? - 1751 (Publisher)
Bowles, Thomas, c.1695 - 1767 (Publisher)
De Fer, Nicolas, 1646 - 1720 (Source artist)
Moll, Herman, c. 1654 - 1732 (mapmaker)
Midwinter, Daniel, fl. 1698 - 1725 (Publisher)
Overton, Philip, ? - 1751 (Publisher)
Bowles, Thomas, c.1695 - 1767 (Publisher)
De Fer, Nicolas, 1646 - 1720 (Source artist)
Place
London
Date
c.1720