Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers
Item Information
- Title:
- Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers
- Description:
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Women in Cartography: This student map depicts the world in a double-hemisphere, centering the left half on Angers, France, and the right on its antipode, or opposite point on earth. Drawn by a French girl in 1839, this thoughtfully conceived map includes two colored views and extensive calligraphy in a fine hand. The unusual elliptical design places the northern and southern borders meshing with the two hemispheres for a unique overall presentation of the world, most likely based on a similar map from an early 19th-century French world atlas.
- Creator:
- Babin, Céleste
- Name on Item:
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par Céleste Babin
- Date:
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1839
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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World maps
- Places:
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World
- Extent:
- 1 manuscript map : hand colored ; 2 hemispheres each 33 cm in diameter, on sheet 61 x 82 cm
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Scale:
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Scale indeterminable
- Language:
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French
- Table of Contents:
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Hémisphère supérieur
Hémisphére inférieur.
- Notes:
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Manuscript map by a schoolgirl attending the institution of Madamoiselle Le Bailleul in Angers. Double hemisphere map depicts a northern hemisphere centered on Angers and a southern hemisphere centered on Angers' antipode. Includes a colored view of Beaupréau.
Relief shown pictorially.
Inset: Vue de Beaupreau.
"Exposition du 2 Septembre 1839."
"Institution de Melle. Le Bailleul."
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Women in Cartography: Five Centuries of Accomplishments" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015-2016.
- Identifier:
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06_01_014374
- Call #:
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G3200 1839 .B33
- Barcode:
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39999065701136
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