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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.
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Document identity
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3f463199m
label
Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
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3f463199m
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers
description
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.
date
["1839"]
year
1839
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
French
identifierLocal
06_01_014374
creators
Babin, Céleste
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
World maps
subjectsGeographic
World
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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1
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Source extras
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sf268508b
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41688024w
extent
1 manuscript map : hand colored ; 2 hemispheres each 33 cm in diameter, on sheet 61 x 82 cm
notes
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."
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3f463199m
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map
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photo
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