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C1787
Asie divisee en ses Principaux Etats, Empires …
Mapmaker:
Impressive large map of Asia by Robert de Vaugondy and published by Charles Francois Delamarche The map is elegantly decorated with a Rococo framed title at top left with an oriental figure and garlands of flowers. At lower left is a scale of distances … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Asie divisee en ses Principaux Etats, Empires & Royames
Date:
C1787
Mapmaker:
Engraver:
Charles Francois Delamarche
(1740 –
1817)
Condition:
Small repaired tear lower sheet edge, otherwise in good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
660mm
x 500mm
Paper Size:
740mm
x 567mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1787
Description:
Impressive large map of Asia by Robert de Vaugondy and published by Charles Francois Delamarche
The map is elegantly decorated with a Rococo framed title at top left with an oriental figure and garlands of flowers. At lower left is a scale of distances decorated with leaves and at right is a large panel with extensive notes on the geography.
Collections: National Library of Australia Bib ID4776420
References:
Moreland p.129, Sweet 207.
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688 - 1766)
Prominent French cartographer and publisher active in Paris, who inherited and extended the intellectual and material legacy of the Sanson family, long regarded as the founders of modern French cartography.
Born in Paris, he became closely associated with the Sanson dynasty through Sanson’s grandson, from whom he acquired a substantial collection of engraved plates, later augmented by those of Pierre Mortier and Alexis-Hubert Jaillot. Drawing upon these foundations, de Vaugondy distinguished himself by revising earlier cartographic models in the light of new scientific knowledge rather than merely reproducing them. He worked in close collaboration with his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786), an accomplished globemaker who was later appointed Géographe du Roi to Louis XV. Together they formed one of the most influential father-and-son partnerships in eighteenth-century cartography. Their crowning achievement was the Atlas Universel of 1757, a monumental work that integrated the results of recent voyages of exploration, astronomical observations, and contemporary scholarly research, and which set new standards for accuracy and critical evaluation of sources. The Vaugondys placed particular emphasis on precision, grounding their maps in journals, surveys, and scientific data, and thereby differentiating themselves from many of their contemporaries who relied heavily on uncritical copying. Active during the French Enlightenment, their work represents the high point of French mapmaking in the period and played a significant role in shaping European geographical knowledge of the wider world. By the time of his death in Paris in 1766, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy had established a respected and enduring cartographic enterprise, renowned for its detailed and up-to-date representations of global geography. He was also one of the leading exponents of the French School of Theoretical Cartography and like Nicholas Bellin popularised the notion of an imaginary east coast of Australia joined to the Solomon Islands.
