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Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes D'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Irlande divisee en grands provinces.
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Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes D'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Irlande divisee en grands provinces.

A beautiful example of Janvier's 1771 decorative map of the British Isles. Includes all of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as parts of adjacent France, Holland and Belgium. Divided according to Province. An inset in the upper right details the Shetland and Orkney Islands. A decorative mile scale appears in the lower left quadrant. A decorative title cartouche depicting the British royal armorial crest appears in the upper left quadrant. Drawn by J. Janvier c. 1771 for issue as plate no. 20 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne.

Date
1771
Place
the British Isles
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,500 × 2,422 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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

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"Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes D'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Irlande divisee en grands provinces." (1771). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1771_Zannoni_Map_of_the_British_Isles_(England,_Scotland,_Ireland)_-_Geographicus_-_BritishIsles-janvier-1771.jpg

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