1854 Pharoah Map of the District of Tanjore, Tamil Nadu India (with Thanjavur)
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Title
1854 (undated) 10.5 x 8.5 in (26.67 x 21.59 cm) 1 : 1013760
Description
The Tajore district came into existence when the Tanjavur Maratha ruler ceded his kingdom to the British East India Company. Originally the center of the Chola Dynasty and became one of the richest districts of the Madras Presidency. It is home to many of the temples built during the Chola Dynasty and is famous for the Tanjore style paintings.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 3 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
CartographerS
J. B. Pharoah (fl. c. 1838 – 1869) was a Madras, India, based bookseller and publisher of educational books and map active in the middle of the 19th century. He maintained a bookshop on Mount Road. The form was a general emporium for European published work. They also published a weekly English language newspaper called The Athenaeum and Statesman (in 1864 renamed, he Athenaeum and Daily News). They also published the The Madras Quarterly Medical Journal and The Madras Journal of Literature and Science. Little more is known of Pharoah.
John Walker, Alexander Walker and Charles Walker, known collectively as J & C Walker (fl. 1820-95), were engravers, draughtsmen and publishers working through the 19th century. They had several offices 47 Bernard St Russel Sq (from 1830 - 1836), 3 Burleigh St Strand (from 1837 to 1840), 9 Castle St Holborn (from 1841 to 1847) and 37 Castle St Holborn (from 1848 to 1875). The firm is best known for its work in conjunction with the maps issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or, as it is more commonly known, the S.D.U.K. However, they also engraved a large corpus of work for the British Admiralty , as well as issuing several important maps of India and multiple issues of the Royal Atlas.