Wikimedia Commons

File:Around the World in Eighty Days DOTM Banner 1862 Johnson Map of the World on Mercator Projection.jpg

Original file ‎(4,640 × 1,546 pixels, file size: 2.91 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Map of the World on Mercator's Projection.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
Work location
New York City Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Map of the World on Mercator's Projection.
Description
English: This is A. J. Johnson’s fine 1862 map of the world on Mercator’s Projection. Depicts the entire world centered on North and South America. Offers a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. Africa is largely “unexplored” and both Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika have yet to appear. The Antarctic continent is shown only sketchily, representing the relatively primitive state of Antarctic exploration in 1862. Shows the path of important explorers including Cook and Wilkes. Also notes several ship routes between America and Europe as well as the path of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Features the strapwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863. Prepared by A. J. Johnson and Ward for publication as plates no. 6 and 7 in the 1862 edition of the New Illustrated Atlas… .
Date 1862 (undated)
Dimensions height: 17 in (43.1 cm); width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,17U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,25U218593
Accession number
Geographicus link: WorldMerc-johnson-1862
Source/Photographer

Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. (1862 A. J. Johnson & Ward edition)

Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
Other versions
image extraction process
This file has been extracted from another file
: 1862 Johnson Map of the World on Mercator Projection - Geographicus - WorldMerc-johnson-1862.jpg
original file

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:35, 20 August 2022Thumbnail for version as of 17:35, 20 August 20224,640 × 1,546 (2.91 MB)AlasdairW (talk | contribs)File:1862 Johnson Map of the World on Mercator Projection - Geographicus - WorldMerc-johnson-1862.jpg cropped 7 % horizontally, 54 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_DOTM_Banner_1862_Johnson_Map_of_the_World_on_Mercator_Projection.jpg&oldid=802002627"