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John Thomson: West Indies. Guadaloupe. Antigua. MarieGalante & c.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John Thomson  (1777–1840)  wikidata:Q6260696
 
Description British geographer, cartographer and editor
Date of birth/death 1777 Edit this at Wikidata circa 1840
date QS:P,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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artist QS:P170,Q6260696
Title
West Indies. Guadaloupe. Antigua. MarieGalante & c.
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English: A fine hand colored 1815 map of the West India islands of Antigua, Guadeloupe and Marie Galante. Depicts the islands in considerable detail with attention to rivers, topography, towns and villages, and major port cities. Issued as chart number 65 in the 1814-1815 printing of John Thomson’s New General Atlas . Engraved by James Kirkwood of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Français : Carte couleur finement dessinée à la main, en 1815, des îles antillaises de la Guadeloupe, de Marie-Galante et d'Antigua. Elle décrit ces îles de façon très détaillée, incluant les rivières et la topographie des villes, villages et villes portuaires. Carte parue sous le numéro 65 dans l'édition 1814-1815 de John Thomson’s New General Atlas. Gravure par James Kirkwood d'Édinbourg, Écosse.
Date 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 20.2 in (51.4 cm); width: 23.2 in (59 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,20.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,23.25U218593
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