Duvotenay, Thunot

Ancient and modern geography sit side by side in maps by Thunot Duvotenay (1796–1875), the French cartographer whose work be...

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Ancient and modern geography sit side by side in maps by Thunot Duvotenay (1796–1875), the French cartographer whose work belongs to the encyclopaedic atlas publishing associated with Firmin-Didot. The examples date from the 1870s, some issued after his death. Ancient Italy, Greece, Britain and Armenia appear alongside their later political geography, and other sheets range through the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia and South America, which makes the comparison most revealing where a familiar name covers very different territories. His historical maps are nineteenth-century reconstructions, not maps printed in the ancient periods they describe.

Ancient and modern geography sit side by side in maps by Thunot Duvotenay (1796–1875), the French cartographer whose work belongs to the encyclopaedic atlas publishing associated with Firmin-Didot. The examples date from the 1870s, some issued after his death. Ancient Italy, Greece, Britain and Armenia appear alongside their later political geography, and other sheets range through the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia and South America, which makes the comparison most revealing where a familiar name covers very different territories. His historical maps are nineteenth-century reconstructions, not maps printed in the ancient periods they describe.

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