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The Square of Quibdó, Chocó
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820-1902) shows a part of the town square of Quibdó in Chocó Province, western Colombia (present-day Department of Chocó). The painting contrasts the well-dressed...
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View from a Street in Nóvita, Chocó Province
In this watercolor, Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows the small village of Nóvita in Chocó Province (present-day Department of Chocó), western Colombia. This region was home to many such villages...
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The Village of Tebada, Chocó Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows a scene from a small village on the banks of the Tebada River in Chocó Province (present-day Department of Chocó) in western Colombia. Fishermen...
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The Village of Sipí or San Agustín, Chocó Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows the village of Sipí or San Agustín in Chocó Province (present-day Department of Chocó), western Colombia. The houses are on raised platforms, and...
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Road to Nóvita via Tamaná Mountain, Chocó Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows two porters at a narrow bridge over a rushing mountain stream on what the caption identifies as the road to Nóvita via Tamaná Mountain. The porter...
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View of the San Juan River and Its Navigation Methods, Chocó Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows three men wielding long poles pushing off from shore in a flat-bottomed boat on the San Juan River in Chocó Province (present-day Department of...
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Porters on the Mountain of Nóvita, Chocó Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows a group of porters setting up camp close to Nóvita, the first capital of the Province of Chocó and now a town in the Department of Chocó, western...
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Indians of Puracé, Popayán Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows four Amerindians in the village of Puracé in Popayán Province (present-day Department of Cauca), in southwest Colombia, an area sandwiched between...
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Inhabitants of Patía, Popayán Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows a mounted mestizo or Amerindian family working with cattle in a field near the Patía River in Popayán Province (present-day Department of Cauca)...
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Indians of Pansitará, Popayán Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows colorfully dressed Amerindian inhabitants of the village of Pancitará, or Pansitará, in Popayán Province (present-day Department of Cauca),...
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Llapangas, Popayán Province
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows three distinctively clad llapangas of Popayán Province (present-day Department of Cauca) in southwest Colombia. Llapanga means “barefoot,” one of...
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View of the Waterfall on the Vinagre River, Called Waterfall of the Nuns,...
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820−1902) shows a stylized view of a waterfall on the Vinagre River (so called for its sulfuric and acidic waters) in the Province of Popayán (present-day...
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Arabia
This mid-19th-century British map shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts of Africa, including Egypt, the Sudan, and Abyssinia. The traditional Greek and Roman division of Arabia into the...
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A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, from the Latest...
John Cary (circa 1754−1835) was a leading London engraver, map-, chart- and print-seller, and globe maker, active between 1787 and 1834. This map of 1804 shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring...
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Colton's Persia, Arabia, Et cetera
This map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan) was published in 1855 by J.H. Colton & Company of New York. Coloring...
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Overview Map of Arabia. Based on C. Ritter's Geography Book III, West Asia,...
German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818–99) is generally regarded as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. He was head of the...
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Map of the Persian Gulf
This map of the Persian Gulf is by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703−72). Qatar is shown as Catura. Cities on both the Arabian and Persian sides of the gulf are indicated, and the...
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Arabia
John Tallis and Company was a British mapmaking and publishing firm, founded by John Tallis (1817–76), which was active in London circa 1835−60. Tallis maps were known for their accurate information...
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A New Map of Arabia: Divided into Its Several Regions and Districts
This map of Arabia, published in London in 1794, is an English translation of a map by the French cartographer and geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697−1782). Appointed the first...
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Northeast Africa and Arabia Drawn to the Scale of 1:12,500,000
This map of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is from the sixth edition (1875) of Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Stieler’s portable atlas of all parts of the Earth), edited by...
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