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Insularum Britannicarum acurata delineatio ex geographicis conatibus Abrahami Ortelii. Amstelodami apud Ioannem Iansonium RMG F0262
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Insularum Britannicarum acurata delineatio ex geographicis conatibus Abrahami Ortelii. Amstelodami apud Ioannem Iansonium RMG F0262

Insularum Britannicarum acurata delineatio ex geographicis conatibus Abrahami Ortelii. Amstelodami apud Ioannem IansoniumSingle sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale circa 1:2,500,000. North at 90 degrees. The border of the map is graduated for latitude and longitude from the meridian of Ferro. This is a map of ancient Britain and Ireland, showing Hadrian's and the Antonine walls, with placenames and tribal names from classical sources. The title cartouche is supported by ancient Britons, one with woad tattoos. The sea is decorated with 17th century ships. This is a sheet from a French edition of Jansson's New Atlas, with French text - L'ancienne Bretaigne - verso. G219:1/13 Britannica

Date
c. 1650
Mapmaker / publisher
Jan Jansson; Petrus Kaerius
Place
the British Isles
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
6,705 × 5,651 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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