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A new and accurate map of the Caspian Sea ….
| Article ID | EUO2259 |
Title | A new and accurate map of the Caspian Sea …. |
Description | Map shows the entire Caspian Sea with its neighboring countries, a compass rose, mileage indicator and a title cartouche. |
| Year | ca. 1780 |
Artist | Bowen (1720-1767) |
Emanuel Bowen (1714- 1767 in London) was an English map engraver, who worked for George II of England and Louis XV of France as a geographer. In spite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790. | |
Historical Description | Since the Caspian Sea is not a sea in the legal sense, it is not subject to the 1994 Convention on the Law of the Sea. The oldest cultural evidence can be found on inscriptions on Assyrian pottery and call it a "Southern Sea". the first popular name refers to the tribe of the Caspians who lived on the southwestern bank of the Caspian Caucasus, in today's Azerbaijan, the second refers to the bank near Hyrkania, a landscape on today's Iranian and southern Turkmen coast. The changing history of settlement led to numerous other names such as B. the Tatar name "Ag Deniz", White Sea. |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Dimensions (cm) | 32 x 22,5 cm |
| Condition | Tear external margin perfectly restored |
| Coloring | original colored |
| Technique | Copper print |
Reproduction:
45.00 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )