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C1763
Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les Dernieres ont ete Faites en 1741,
Mapmaker:
Superbly c.18th embellished double hemisphere world map showing Australia with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman on two voyages 1742-4. The embellishments include; female personifications of the continents in the lower area set within a panoramic landscape, lunar and solar … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les Dernieres ont ete Faites en 1741,
Date:
C1763
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
338mm
x 248mm
Paper Size:
378mm
x 291mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1763
Description:
Superbly c.18th embellished double hemisphere world map showing Australia with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman on two voyages 1742-4. The embellishments include; female personifications of the continents in the lower area set within a panoramic landscape, lunar and solar calendars at top centre and Apollo riding his chariot at top left. As Rodney Shirley states; “the decorative engraving surrounding the hemispheres is exceptionally detailed and complex….”
References:
Shirley, R. The Mapping of the World Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700. London 1987: 613, ill. Plate 421.
Shirley, R. The Mapping of the World Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700. London 1987: 613, ill. Plate 421.
Jean de Beaurain (1696 - 1771)
French geographer who at the age of nineteen, came to Paris and studied geography under Pierre Moulart-Samson, geographer to the king, a title which Beaurain obtained at the age of twenty-five. A perpetual calendar, ecclesiastical and civil, which he published in 1724, made him known to Louis XV, for whom he made a large number of maps and plans.
