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John George Bartholomew (1860–1920), FRSE

Image credit: The Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Geographer and cartographer, Dr Bartholomew succeeded to the full management of his father's firm of cartographic printers at the age of 28. He, with the assistance of other Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, including Alexander Buchan, W. Eagle Clark and Percy H. Grimshaw, was responsible for such famous productions as the Royal Geographical Society's 'The Survey Atlas of Scotland' (1895), 'The Atlas of Meteorology' (1899) and 'The Atlas of Zoogeography' (1911). He introduced the well known series of half-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, having the contours distinguished in colour, in 1895, and a similar series for England and Wales in 1903. Bartholomew was one of the founders, and the first secretary, of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Title

John George Bartholomew (1860–1920), FRSE

Date

c.1910

Medium

oil on panel/board

Measurements

H 62.5 x W 49 cm

Accession number

PCF24

Acquisition method

presented by the artist's son, Professor John Walton, FRSE, 1954

Work type

Painting

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