Chiquet’s Map of Asia
SKU: 9071Title:
Chiquet’s Map of Asia
Date of publication:
1719
Printed Measurement:
17 x 22.5 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
L’Asie, dressée selon les observations de Mrs. de l’Academie Royale des Sciences.
Copper engraving, 17 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, a couple of light spots, blank verso. This map shows the continent of Asia. The incomplete coastline of ‘Terre de Iesso’ (Hokkaido) extends to the edge of the map; some map-makers believed that it had the potential to meet with the unexplored northwestern coastline of America. Published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’.
Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print- and map-seller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here.