Maniere d´Aller a la chassé et des differents animaux de Laponie.

Title

Maniere d´Aller a la chassé et des differents animaux de Laponie.

Description

5 represenations of the hunting of the inhabitans in Norway and Lapland. From the ‘Atlas Historique’ by Henri Abraham Chatelain. The work was published by the author in Amsterdam between 1718 and 1720. The text was compiled by Gueudeville & Garillon. The maps were completed by Chatelain under the influence of Guillaume de l'Isle. The work was published in several editions, the second edition being the first to include additional maps not included in the first, including a world map, a map of America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The ‘Atlas Historique’ was a very ambitious and ground-breaking work, covering genealogy, cosmography, topography, heraldry and chronology. It was intended for the general public and the growing fascination with the recently conquered colonies and new discoveries. Chatelain's maps are an outstanding example of the golden age of French cartography.

ca. 1718

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.

Historical Description

The Neolithic funnel cup culture of Scandinavia was followed by Germanic influences in the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the Viking Age (800-1050), Norway was unified by King Harald Hårfagre around the year 900. During this period, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland were settled from Norway. Some Vikings - under the leadership of e.g. Bjarni Herjúlfsson, Thorvald Eiriksson and Leif Eriksson - even reached Newfoundland off the northeast coast of the continent called America about 500 years later on several voyages around 1000 AD. The Orkney and Shetland Islands were also taken possession of by Norwegian Vikings and belonged to Norway until 1472. In personal union with Denmark from 1380, Norway joined the Kalmar Union in 1397 and became a relatively insignificant member in this. The Kalmar Empire lasted formally until the departure of Sweden (1523), with Denmark until 1814. Because of political support from France, Denmark had to cede Norway to the King of Sweden in the Peace of Kiel on January 14, 1814, after the Napoleonic Wars. However, there was no direct surrender, so Norway became independent for a short time and gave itself a constitution in a national assembly in Eidsvoll on May 17, 1814, which is still valid today with slight changes. The Storting arranged the first May 17 celebration in 1836, since that day, May 17 has been considered Norway's national holiday.