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Last Name Arrowsmith
Given Name John
alt. Names J. A. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1790 in Winston, County Durham, England
Year died 1873
Place of death
Father's occupation
Relatives cartographical engraver->Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) (uncle) ; cartographical engraver Aaron Jr. (1xxx-1xxx) (cousin) ; ->Samuel (1xxx-1xxx) (cousin
Education
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for explorer and engineer Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds ; surgeon Rupert Kirk ; John Petherick ; The London Atlas of Universal Geography, Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World (London 1834) ;
Patronage Royal Geographical Society, London ; gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1863;
Collaborators map engraver ->Aaron Arrowsmith Jr. & Sr. ; ->Samuel Arrowsmith ;
Techniques cartographical and geographical copperplate engraving and drawing
Sample(s) www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/view/search?QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA&q=%22arrowsmith%2C+john%22&search=Search ;
Archival sources see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arrowsmith_%28cartographer%29 for a listing of his maps ; https://maps.nls.uk/mapmakers/name/Arrowsmith ;
Published sources C. J. Schüler: Geschichte Kartographie 2010: 278 ; Tooley's Dictionary Mapmakers rev. ed. ;
other Member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers, active in London.
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