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Identifier
20086362
Description
Hand-colored map of Reunion island by Victor Levasseur with pictorial illustrations by Raimond Bonheur, father of the famous French artist Rosa Bonheur. Reunion island, formerly known as Ile Bourbon, is a volcanic island off the coast of Africa with rainforest interior and Creole culture. Surrounding the map are vignettes and imagery, including portraits of French poets Evariste de Parny (left) and Antoine Bertin (right), island natives, and plants indigenous to the island. A volcano and harbor town scene are included, with vegetal resources presented beside storage containers. Map from Levasseur's Atlas National Illustre (Paris: A. Combette, 1845, and later editions). Single-sided, side-paged, horizontal map. 28 cm. x 43 cm. [Gift of Dr. Jack Franke]
Archival Date
1849
Collection Name
Maps of Africa
Collection Number
Acc. 2019-244
Language
French
Original Format
Maps
File Format
JPG
Rights
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License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Subjects
Maps; Africa; Réunion; Islands; Waterways; Colonies; Illustrations; Volcanoes; Oceans