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Plan De La Ville Et Fauxbourgs De Paris Dressé sur les Observations AStronomiques de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et sur les Operationes Geom. De Guillaume Del Isle de la meme Academie
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| Title | Plan De La Ville Et Fauxbourgs De Paris Dressé sur les Observations AStronomiques de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et sur les Operationes Geom. De Guillaume Del Isle de la meme Academie |
| Detailed view (zoom) | http://content.lib.washington.edu/mapsweb/images/Viewer/G5834_P3_1716_L5.html |
| Cartographer | L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
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| Engraver | Desrosiers
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| Century Published | 18th century
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| Publication Date | 1716 |
| Publisher | L'Isle, Guillaume de 1675-1726
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| Place of Publication | France--Paris--France |
| Descriptive Notes | Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor.
Outline color.
Printed along top edge:
" Plan De La Ville Et Fauxbourgs De Paris Dressé sur les Observations AStronomiques de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et sur les Operationes Geom. De Guillaume Del Isle de la meme Academie A Paris chez l'Auteur Sur le Quai de l'Orloge. avec Pr. Juin 1716."
Printed in lower left corner in margin:
"Derozier Sculps."
Written in ink in upper right corner:
No. 32."
Depicts detailed town layout of Paris and surrounding suburban areas labeled as "Fauxbourgs" including Fauxbourg S. Honore, Fauxbourg de Richelieu, Fauxbourg Montmartre, Fauxbourg S. Lazare, Fauxbourg de S. Laurent, Fauxbourg Martin, Fauxbourg S. Denis, Fauxbourg Du Temple, Fauxbourg S. Antoine, Fauxbourg Saint Jacque, Fauxbourg Victor, Fauxbourg Marceau, Fauxbourg St. Michel, and Fauxbourg S. Germain. Laid out in grid form. Shows Prime Meridian running between E and F grid lines. Depicts major buildings, gardens, and hospitals including the Tuilleries, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Palais, the Palais Royal, the Temple, the Royal Observatory, and Hotel de Soisons. Includes a large key for streets labeled "Table Alphabetique des Rues de la Ville et Fauxbs. De Paris" in the left margin, upper right corner, lower left corner and lower right corner. Major buildings and other structures are shown in three dimensional relief.
Prime Meridian: Paris.
Scale: 1:17, 000. |
| Contextual Notes | Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was a cartographer and the Premier Geographer to the King in France beginning in 1718. His family played a significant part in the world of French cartography in the eighteenth century. At age 9, he drew his first map and at age 27 he became a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. He studied under Jacques Cassini, acquiring knowledge in both mathematics and astronomy. Due to his academic background and his "critical approach to the maps of his predecessors" he became known as the first "scientific cartographer" (Moreland and Bannister, 132). Among his works are "Globe, map of the world and the four continents" (1700), "Atlas de Géographie" (1700-12), "Mississippi" (1701), "Carte du Mexique et de la Floride…" (c.a. 1703), "Carte de la Louisiane et du Mississippi" (1718) and posthumously, "Atlas Noveau…" (1730 and later). Following his death, his widow took up the business with a partner, Philippe Buache (Moreland and Bannister, 131-2; Tooley, 395).
This map was most likely published in "Atlas de Geographie" (David Rumsey Cartography Associates).
Source(s):
David Rumsey Cartography Associates. "David Rumsey Collection: Plan de la Ville et Fauxbourgs de Paris. Dressee sur les observations." Accessed 3 Mar 2009.
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.
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| Language | French |
| Location Depicted | France--Paris
Europe
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Paris (France)-Maps-Early works to 1800. |
| Digital Collection | World and Regional Maps, 16th to the 19th centuries
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| Digital ID Number | MAP158 |
| Ordering Information | For information about digital reproductions, please email photos@u.washington.edu. Please cite the Digital ID number. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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| Repository Collection | Rare Map Collection. G5834 P3 1716 L5 (map uncataloged) |
| Object Type | Map
Engraving |
| Physical Description | 49 x 63 cm. |
| Condition | Browning around edges. Has binder's guard. Darkening along centerfold. Some color has bled through to verso. Acquisition information written in pencil on verso in upper left corner. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original map at 600 dpi in TIFF format, resized and enhanced at 400 ppi using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using ContentDM's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Acquisition | Written in pencil on verso in upper left corner: Lonidom 1958. |
| References | David Rumsey Cartography Associates, http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2848~290035:Plan-de-la-Ville-et-Fauxbourgs-de-P. |
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