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Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon avec d’autres particularitez du Pays.
| Article ID | ASN0899 |
Title | Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon avec d’autres particularitez du Pays. |
Description | Decorative copperprint depicts five views and one plan surrounding a central panel of French text describing Meaco ,the home of the Dairi or Spiritual Emperor and Jedo ,the home of the Koubo or Secular Emperor. The plan depicts the Deshima, an artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki where the famous Dutch East India Company was allowed to trade with the representatives of Tokyo, former Jedo. |
| Year | ca. 1720 |
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) | 39 x 50 |
| Condition | Perfect condition |
| Coloring | colored |
| Technique | Copper print |
Reproduction:
67.50 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )