The Environs of Paris
This rare hand colored map of Paris and Environs is a copper plate engraving dating to 1855. Produced by the respected mid 19th century American Mapmaker J. H. Colton. Map covers the Seine valley in a roughly 30 mile radius of Paris. Versailles appears in the extreme southwest and Vitry in the extreme northeast. The whole is beautifully detailed down to individual buildings. A beautiful and superbly detailed map.
- Date
- 1855
- Place
- Paris
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,451 pixels
Public domainsafest
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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