Original copperplate map of Denmark, Southern Sweden and Southern Norway – 1812

Map title: “Denmark, avec le midi de la Suède et de la Norwege”

Artist/Cartographer: Pierre Lapie

Engraver: Jean-Baptiste Tardieu

Publisher: François Buisson, Paris, 1812

Technique: copperplate engraving or intaglio, hand-colored borders

Area depicted: Denmark, southern Sweden and southern Norway

decorative city and harbor view in the title cartouche

The map shows the entire Kingdom of Denmark with Jutland and the Danish islands, as well as the southern regions of Sweden and Norway. Also depicted are Schleswig and Holstein, the Baltic Sea, the Kattegat, the Skagerrak, as well as numerous cities, towns, islands and historical territorial boundaries.

The map was designed by the French geographer Pierre Lapie and engraved in copper by Jean-Baptiste Tardieu. It was published in Paris in 1812 by François Buisson as part of an atlas by Conrad Malte-Brun.

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