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1780 NOLIN, J.-B. / CREPY. - Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...
Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...
| Maker: | NOLIN, J.-B. / CREPY. | |
| Date: | Paris, c. 1780 | |
| Colored: | In original colors with later color addition. | |
| Size: | 1025 x 1500 mm / 40.4 x 59.1 inches | |
| Condition: | Several repairs of tears and occasional loss of paper, carefully reinforced and restored, laid down on linen. | |
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Description
This superbly engraved wall map in twin hemispheres and their surround are engraved on four sheets with further strips comprising a broad pictorial border on top and left and right sides. The map was recently laid on canvas and mounted on early 19th-century wooden rollers.
At the bottom, architectural columns of text. The elaborate decorative border contains sixteen medallion vignettes, each depicting an event in biblical history according to contemporary terms.
This fine large-scale world map results from a partnership between Nolin and the celebrated painter Bocquet, who carried out Nolin’s extraordinary conception with stunning results. The two hemispheres are supported by large mythical figures and surrounded by images of the creation of heaven and earth.
This is the 1775 re-issue by Crépy and has a redrawn with "Mer de l'ouest" reduced in size.
The original 1700 edition of Nolin’s map was the first to delineate the famous Mer de l’Ouest in North America, fueling the prominent fantasy of a Northwest Passage. Although this later edition reduces the fictitious sea in size (and it would eventually disappear from the map completely), enthusiasm for a Northwest Passage remains, this time portrayed as the Detroit d’Anian , which attempts to link Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
Nolin’s delineation of Australia contains an entirely new eastern coastline, “linking Papua-New Guinea and Tasmania in one sweep. This feature appears on many later 18th-century maps and was not corrected until Captain Cook's discoveries in the 1770s.
Separately published. Rare.
Interesting for its dual naming of "Mer du Corée" and “Mer du Japon” for the Sea in between Japan and Korea.
Maps of this style were intended for the offices and homes of important merchants, officials and dignitaries. Because of the vulnerability of such wall decoration, very few such maps now come onto the market. This map, although it shows evidence of paper cracking and some paper reinforcement, is nevertheless a striking example of the most impressive combination of cartography and art.
Reference: Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 605.
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