Detail View: Old Maps Collection: 華夷圖

Barcode: 
4687820500617
Title: 
華夷圖
Original Title: 
華夷圖
Contributor: 
Anonymous
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Chinese
Create Year: 
1136
Format: 
JPEG2000, 4848 × 5149, 3.8MB
Scale: 
Scale not given
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
40 × 40
Note: 
Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in Nan Song Dynasty, from east to the sea, including Korea to the west of Pamier area, from north to the Great Wall, northeast to Heilongjiang region, to the south of Hainan Island. Shows mountains, rivers, lakes, and more than 400 administrative place names of China. Annotated in pencil: From Bull. de l'Ecole Française d'Extrème, Orient, vol. 3, 1903, facing page 214. On bottom of map: Carte A. Includes text.
Note: 
This is an early old map depicted the world
Subject: 
Names, Geographical
Subject: 
Rubbing
Subject: 
Administrative and political divisions
Geographic Area: 
China
Pub Year: 
1136
Pub location: 
France
Provenance: 
Library of Congress Map Collections