7518 x 6296 px | 63,7 x 53,3 cm | 25,1 x 21 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1817
Ubicazione:
Atlantic Islands
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Artist/engraver/cartographer: Drawn & engraved by Thomas Clerk for John Thomson's "New General Atlas". Provenance: "A new general atlas", consisting of a series of geographical designs, on various projections, exhibiting the form and component parts of the globe; and a collection of maps and charts, delineating the natural and political divisions of the Empires, Kingdoms, and States in the World", Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for John Thomson and Company, Edinburgh; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London; and John Cumming, Dublin [Thomson's New General Atlas]. Type: Antique early 19th century atlas map with original hand colouring. A large, decorative chart of Macaronesia, consisting of the island groups of the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands, the Azores & Madeira. There is a fine vignette view in the centre of the "Peak of Teneriffe" (Pico del Teide) from the sea, with a number of three-masted sailing ships. Inset bottom right is a chart of "Puerto de Naos and Puerto Cavillo in the isle of Lancarota" (now Arrecife, Lanzarote), and bottom left, a chart of the "Road of Fayal" (Horta, Ilha do Faial, Azores)
