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Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage: Plan of Athens, for the Travels of Anacharsis, May 1784.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage  (1760–1825)  wikidata:Q910954
 
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage
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Jean-Denis Barbie du Bocage
Description French geographer and cartographer
student of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Date of birth/death 28 April 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 29 December 1825
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q910954
Title
Plan of Athens, for the Travels of Anacharsis, May 1784.
Description
English: This is an attractive 1784 map of ancient Athens, Greece. Covering the walled center of ancient Athens, this map details the ancient city’s most important buildings and monuments. Names the Lyceum (Aristotle’s famous school of philosophy) and the Cynosarges (Public gymnasium) as well as the Forum, the Citadel, the Temple of Theseus, and the Areopagus. Prepared by Barbie de Bocage for publication in the atlas volume attached to Jean Jacques Barthelemy’s 1788 Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece .
Date 1784 (dated)
Dimensions height: 8.5 in (21.5 cm); width: 12.5 in (31.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Athens-bocage-1784
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Barthelemy, J. J., Atlas to Accompany The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, 1788.

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