District of Tanjore.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

1854 Pharoah Map of the District of Tanjore, Tamil Nadu India (with Thanjavur)

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Title

District of Tanjore.
1854 (undated) 10.5 x 8.5 in (26.67 x 21.59 cm) 1 : 1013760

Description

This is a nice example of the 1854 map of the District of Tanjore in the modern day state of Tamil Nadu, India, issued by Pharoah and Company. It covers from Mimbesel (Mimisal) north to Pazhaiyar or the entrance of the Kollidam River. Includes the towns of Tanjore (Thanjavur), Pattacotte (Pudukkottai), Manargudi, etc. The map also notes important roads, lakes, rivers and topography.

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.

Source

Pharoah and Company, An Atlas of the Southern Part of India including Plans of all the Principal Towns and Cantonments, reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India shewing also The Tenasserim Provinces, (Madras) 1854. The Pharoah and Company Atlas of Southern India was published around 1854. The medium format 4to atlas contained some 70 maps focusing on the southern part of Indian and the Tanasserium Province, or Burma. The atlas was engraved an printed in London by J. and C. Walker, but seems to have been issued only in Madras, India, by J. B. Pharoah and Company. The atlas claims to have been "reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India," and, in fact the survey did provide a framework for the atlas, but little of the actual cartographic detail. The atlas is rather novel in that it has universal scale of 16 miles to the inch (1 : 1013760) for most of its regional maps. In addition to its regional maps, the atlas also contained 21city plans. These plans are some of the only obtainable mid-195h century maps of many South Indian cities. It also contained a rare map of Singapore.

Condition

Very good. Minor foxing.

References

OCLC: 710810046.

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