John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an

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cartographer,

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and engraver. DukeOfYorkJourney by John Gibson

Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of t ...

and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas ''Atlas Minimus''. He worked also for the

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The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 165
/ref> for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in ''

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'', ''The Universal Museum'' and ''The Universal Traveller''.

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University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus
1750 births 1792 deaths English cartographers Publishers (people) from London 18th-century English people 18th-century engravers {{geoscientist-stub