Description de la ville Smyrne

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Article ID AST0740

Title

Description de la ville Smyrne

Description

Beautiful total view of the city Izmir with offshore ships representation.

Year

ca. 1719

Artist

Chatelain (1684-1743)

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), The Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie.

Place of Publication Amsterdam
Dimensions (cm)20 x 49
ConditionLower margin cutted
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueCopper print

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