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Jean Janvier: Les Couronnes du Nord Comprenant Les Royaumes de Suede Danemarck et Norwege divisees par Provinces et Gouvernements.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean Janvier  (fl. 1746–1776)  wikidata:Q58129096
 
Alternative names
Robert Janvier; Le Sieur Janvier
Description French geographer and cartographer
Work period 1746 Edit this at Wikidata–1776 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q58129096
Title
Les Couronnes du Nord Comprenant Les Royaumes de Suede Danemarck et Norwege divisees par Provinces et Gouvernements.
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English: A beautiful example of Jan Janvier's 1762 decorative map of Scandinavia. Covers from Iceland and England eastward as far as Moscow, north to the Arctic Sea, and south as far as Denmark and Germany. Includes the modern day nations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. Identifies towns, cities, rivers, mountains, and some undersea features. Of particular interest is the legendary Lofoten Maelstrom in northwestern Norway. This legendary whirlpool was the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale "A Descent into the Maelstrom". In reality, it is a periodic and powerful current caused by tidal variations in the region. A large decorative title cartouche appears in the upper left quadrant. Drawn by J. Janvier c. 1762 for issue as plate no. 21 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1762 (dated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: Scandinavia-janvier-1762
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Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.

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