The World. Western Hemisphere. Eastern Hemisphere.

A fine example of Clement Cruttwell's 1799 map of the world in two hemispheres. This is an elegant world map designed to illustrate the activities of important explorers of the 17th and18th centuries. The tracks of Cook, Anson, Bourgainville, Wallis, Furneaux, and others are noted. Cook's work in the late 18th century, being of extreme importance, is emphasized. Cartographically this map follows established convention but does feature the most recent discoveries of Cook and Vitus Bering in the Arctic. Inland detail is somewhat minimal and focuses on important cities and countries. There are a few anomalies worthy of note. Tasmania is attached to the Australian mainland. The southern shores of New Guinea are unknown and left blank. Japan is incorrectly aligned along the horizontal. The Sea between Japan and Korea, the name of which is currently being disputed between Korea and Japan, is here identified as the Sea of Corea. In North America the apocryphal River of the West runs from the west coast inland. Also in North America, though the discoveries of Hearne are noted, the work of MacKenzie, further west, is missing (possibly Cruttwell was an investor in the Hudson Bay Company and

Date

1799

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

3,500 × 2,387 pixels

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