Lot #: 85310
CARTE REDUITE DE LA MER MEDITERRANEE . . . 1737. |
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Description
A rare 3-sheet nautical chart taken from: 'Le Neptune François ou Recueil des Cartes Marines, Levees et Gravees par Ordre du Roi. Premier Volume, Contenant les Cotes de l'Europe sur l’Ocean. […] Versailles; L’Imprimerie du Département de la Marine' [s.d.]
Nautical chart engraved by Guillaume Dheulland (Paris 1700-1770) and printed in 1737 by the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As indicated in the title, the map is made by order of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas (Versailles 1701-1781). Son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, count de Pontchartrain, secretary of state at the navy and in the Chamber of the King.
Maurepas, succeeded in this position from his father, at only 14 years of age. He became secretary of state to the Navy on 16 August 1723, remaining there until 23 April 1749. The King understood that to counter the naval power of the English fleet it was necessary to supply the Navy with updated nautical charts.
A first attempt was represented by the publication of "Le Neptune François ou recueil des cartes marines levées et gravées par ordre du Roi" (1693), but only in the early eighteenth century was a major campaign launched on the coasts of the Mediterranean and other seas, which led to the creation of numerous maps, collected by the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine, a cartographic service office created in 1720 by Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) which, anticipating the current French naval hydrographic and oceanographic service (SHOM), had the task of collecting and preserving nautical plans, maps, newspapers and memoirs relating to the Navy.
The Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine quickly became the place of production of the charts. In 1773 he obtained the monopoly of the creation of nautical charts in France. The Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine was started in 1720, with the acquisition of the Neptune François, under the direction of Captain Charles-Hercule d'Albert de Luynes - known as Chevalier de Luynes (1674-1734) - an aristocratic and official of marina, who directed the institute until 1722.
Chapuis ascribed the chart to Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (cfr. A la mer comme au ciel, p. 151): “Le routier général de Méditerranée publié par le Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine en 1737, est una carte réduite. Bellin justifie ainsi cette publication: On a fait una carte réduite parce que ce sont les soules cartes marines qui ayent un vrai rapport avec le globe. Dans le mémories accompagnante la carte, il renchérit: Les cartes réduites étant les seules sur lesquelles on peut pointer les toutes avec précision, on a cru devoir changer l’usage qui n’avoit donné jusqu’à ce jour que des cartes plates pour la mer Méditerranée”.
Reference: O. Chapuis, A la mer comme au ciel: Beautemps-Beaupré & la naissance de lhydrographie, Parigi, 1999, pp. 151-2; National Maritime Museum, Catalogue of the Library - Vol. Three, Atlas & Cartography, Londra, 1971, pp. 236-238, n. 209 (56-58). S. Bifolco,
Nautical chart engraved by Guillaume Dheulland (Paris 1700-1770) and printed in 1737 by the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As indicated in the title, the map is made by order of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas (Versailles 1701-1781). Son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, count de Pontchartrain, secretary of state at the navy and in the Chamber of the King.
Maurepas, succeeded in this position from his father, at only 14 years of age. He became secretary of state to the Navy on 16 August 1723, remaining there until 23 April 1749. The King understood that to counter the naval power of the English fleet it was necessary to supply the Navy with updated nautical charts.
A first attempt was represented by the publication of "Le Neptune François ou recueil des cartes marines levées et gravées par ordre du Roi" (1693), but only in the early eighteenth century was a major campaign launched on the coasts of the Mediterranean and other seas, which led to the creation of numerous maps, collected by the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine, a cartographic service office created in 1720 by Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) which, anticipating the current French naval hydrographic and oceanographic service (SHOM), had the task of collecting and preserving nautical plans, maps, newspapers and memoirs relating to the Navy.
The Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine quickly became the place of production of the charts. In 1773 he obtained the monopoly of the creation of nautical charts in France. The Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine was started in 1720, with the acquisition of the Neptune François, under the direction of Captain Charles-Hercule d'Albert de Luynes - known as Chevalier de Luynes (1674-1734) - an aristocratic and official of marina, who directed the institute until 1722.
Chapuis ascribed the chart to Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (cfr. A la mer comme au ciel, p. 151): “Le routier général de Méditerranée publié par le Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine en 1737, est una carte réduite. Bellin justifie ainsi cette publication: On a fait una carte réduite parce que ce sont les soules cartes marines qui ayent un vrai rapport avec le globe. Dans le mémories accompagnante la carte, il renchérit: Les cartes réduites étant les seules sur lesquelles on peut pointer les toutes avec précision, on a cru devoir changer l’usage qui n’avoit donné jusqu’à ce jour que des cartes plates pour la mer Méditerranée”.
Reference: O. Chapuis, A la mer comme au ciel: Beautemps-Beaupré & la naissance de lhydrographie, Parigi, 1999, pp. 151-2; National Maritime Museum, Catalogue of the Library - Vol. Three, Atlas & Cartography, Londra, 1971, pp. 236-238, n. 209 (56-58). S. Bifolco,
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