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J. H. Colton: Environs de Paris.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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J. H. Colton  (1800–1893)  wikidata:Q6105865
 
J. H. Colton
Alternative names
Joseph Hutchins Colton
Description American cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 5 July 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1893 / 19 July 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Longmeadow New York City
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artist QS:P170,Q6105865
Title
Environs de Paris.
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English: This rare hand colored map of Paris and Environs is a copper plate engraving dating to 1857. 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. Earlier editions feature a vine border, however, this embellishment was dropped for the 1857 issue. Prepared out of Colton's 172 William St, New York, office for inclusion as plate no. 73 in the 1857 issue of Colton's General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Date 1855 - 57 (dated)
Dimensions height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 14.7 in (37.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,14.75U218593
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Geographicus link: Paris-cbl-1855
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