Title
Map: “L’ Europe"
Maker
Artist/ cartographer: Daudet
Engraver: Unknown
Printer/ publisher: Unknown
Material
Laid paper, ink, watercolor
Origin
France, Lyon
Date:
1752
Dimensions:
Paper: 31 13/16” X 40 15/16”
Plate: 30 7/8” X 40”
Image: 30 ½” X 39 ½”
Description:
Colored, engraved map made of two joined sheets:“L’Europe Divisée Selon L’Etendue de Ses Principaux Etats Et subdivisés en leurs principales Provinces Dressèes sur differents memoires. (Translation: Europe divided according to the scope of its principal states subdivided into their principal provinces set out according to various recollections) [cartouche, upper left] | A Lyon Chez Daudet rue mercierre 1752. [lower left, outside neat line] A series of thirty colored vignettes of historical scenes surround the map. Each is identified by a French text.
Source:
Purchase
Relation:
See also Daudet’s “Map of Asia” (TP.1957.049.018B). Both maps are mounted on heavy canvas.
Comments:
Historical scenes (clockwise from upper left corner) include: “Fondation de Rome;” “Commencement du Senat; “Commencement de s’Emperurs Romans;” “Victoire de Constantin;” Charlemagne L’Empereur d’Occident;” “Presage de L’Empire des Grecs;” “De la Monarchie des François;” “Du Royaume d’Espagne;” “Des Royaumes d’Angleterre;” “Abjuration de Henri IV;” “Fondation de Constantinople;” “ Du Royaume de Lombardie;” “Batéme de Clovis;” “ Premier Triomphe de l’Englise;” “La Republique d’Holland; “Premier Conclave des Cardinaus;” “Monarchie d’Espangne dans Lam de France;” “Des XIII Cantons Suisses;” “Suede;” “La Pologne;” “Du d’Anemarck; “ “ De la Republique de Venise;” “De la Moscovie;” “ Du Royaume d’Ecosse;” “Establissment du College Electoral;” “ Prise de Constantinople par les Turcs;” “Premier Royaume d’Europe;” “Rome Sacqee par Alaric;” “Arivée d’Enee en Italie;” and “La Ville d’Athenes.”
Language:
French
Rights:
Permission to use the photograph must be obtained in writing from Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens, New Bern, North Carolina. It must be accompanied by the caption” From the collection of Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens, New Bern, North Carolina; North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archive and History.”
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