Map/Chart > The Persian Collection
A Plan of the Islands of Bahrain and Arad.
An interesting, artistic and for the most part, wildly inaccurate plan of the Islands of Bahrain and Arad, drawn in 1817.
Chart Information | |
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Reference: | A719 |
Date | 1817 |
Hydrographer/Surveyor/Artist: | Captain Forbes |
Size Of Original: | w 54.5cm x h 43cm |
Paper Type | German Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 310gms (original size) |
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A719 |
Original |
w54.5 x h43 |
$198 |
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Only the northern coastline of Bahrain and the western coast of Arad have been depicted with reasonable geographical and hydrographical accuracy; suggesting that the island of Bahrain is only one and a half miles in length, and Arad is one, to one and a half miles, in width. The assumption being that no attempt was made to survey the islands in their entirety- they didn’t look around the corner!