DESCRIPTION: A foundational sea chart for collectors of the Black Sea and Azoff Sea with the track of the French survey vessel "Chevrette" during their survey cruise in 1820.
A fine, scarce copper-plate engraved hydrographic chart of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov (Azof). This ~200 year-old artifact documents the hydrographic survey of Captain Pierre-Henry Gauttier with Benoist and others during their cruise aboard the gabare "Chevrette" in 1820 to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.
Before the Black Sea survey, in 1818/1819 Gauttier conducted a survey to Greece with Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), where d'Urville played a role in bringing the statue of Venus from the island of Milos to the Louvre. Long story short, though d'Urville's importance in the affair appears to to have been secondary, skillful PR hyped d'Urville's importance and the "discovery" of the Venus de Milo launched his young career as a botanist and hydrographer.
Pierre-Henry Gauttier du Parc (1772 - 1850) was a French naval officer and hydrographer.
Engraved by Etienne Collin (1770, 1841). A brief biography explains that Etienne Collin was the nephew of the renowned Beautemps-Beaupre, considered to be the father of French hydrography. The biographer noted Beautemps-Beaupre practiced an "enlightened nepotism" and that during Beaupre's tenure as Hydrographer "that the functions (geographers, hydrographers, engravers, draughtsmen, ....) within the Depot were largely occupied by members of the Buache-Beautemps-Collin family." (Source: http://cartes-martinique.pagesperso-orange.fr/Graveurs_HydroFran.htm)
With the circular logo of the Depot General de la Marine. Price when issued 4 Francs.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1823
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: N/A
BODY OF WATER: Black Sea
CONDITION: Very Good.
Clean. Strong clean paper. No issues except one small repaired marginal tear outside the image. Ample margins. Solid. Date is effaced and overwritten, apparently to deceive.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER: E. Collin.
SIZE: 37
" x
23 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 62
PRICE: $2200
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