France / Jane Renwick fecit.
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- Created Date
- 1813
- Description
Manuscript map. Relief shown by pictorially. "From the heirs of Prof. Renwick, donation 5 May, 1868. 404" -- Handwritten on acquisition label pasted on in lower right corner. This map was made and signed by Jane Renwick. It was likely made by her at the age of 12 along with another map with a known date, made and signed by her. This is a typical example of a map copying exercise that was commonly part of a young woman's education in the early nineteenth century. On April 26, 1826, Jane married Charles Wilkes, who later gained fame as the commander of the United States Exploring Expedition. Manuscript and annotated maps in the American Geographical Society Library: a cartobibliography.
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- Creator
Wilkes, Jane Renwick, 1801-1843
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Type
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- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Wilkes, Jane Renwick, 1801-1843. France / Jane Renwick fecit.. 1813. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/20470. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Wilkes, Jane Renwick, 1801-1843, (1813) France / Jane Renwick fecit.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/20470
- MLA citation style
- Wilkes, Jane Renwick, 1801-1843. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/20470>.