File:1763 Anville Map of the Western Roman Empire (including Italy) - Geographicus - RomanEmpireWest-anville-1763.jpg

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Artist
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville  (1697–1782)  wikidata:Q733907 s:en:Author:Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville q:it:Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
 
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Description French geographer and cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 July 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1782 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q733907
Title
Orbis Romani, pars occidentalis. Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi, Aurelianorum Ducis publici juris facta. Auctor d'Anville, Regiae Humaniorium Litterarum Academiae, et Scientiarum Petropolitanae Socius, Celsitudinique Serenissimae a Secretis. MDCCLXIII.
Description
English: This is the stunning western sheet from Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville’s two map set depicting the Roman Empire. Depicts the western portion of the Roman Empire from Italy and Dalmatia westward to include all of Spain, Ireland and England. Also includes parts of North Africa including Carthage. Extend northwards to the Baltic Sea. Uses archaic place names throughout. Decorative title cartouche at the upper right quadrant. Engraved by Guillaume Delahaye for publication in the 1763 edition of Anville’s Atlas General.
Date 1763 (dated)
Dimensions height: 27.5 in (69.8 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22U218593
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Geographicus link: RomanEmpireWest-anville-1763
Source/Photographer

D'Anville, J.B.B., Atlas Generale (1763 edition).

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