The Old Print Shop

Nouvelle Carte pour conduire a la Connoissance de la Marine et a demontrer la plus part des Instrumens… .

  • ARTIST: Henri Chatelain

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Amsterdam by L’Honore & Chatelain.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving printed on fine laid paper,

    DATE: 1720

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 18 3/4 x 23" (47.5 x 58.4 mm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates. Included in the 1720 edition of Atlas Historique, published by Chatelain in Amsterdam, this large plan shows many different nautical instruments used in navigation, ship types, and ship building. The main ship shown is well described with a numbered key identifying over 100 parts of the ship including rigging and various spars. By combining a wealth of historical and geographical information with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition, this elegant engraving is a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Black & white.

  • REFERENCE: Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 305, 548, & 579; Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps; Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. II. p. 33-38.