Description de la Tartarie

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

This map of Asian Russia, originally published in 1654, is taken from 'Cartes Generales de la Geographie Ancienne et Nouvelle', published in two volumes in Paris in 1675.

Nicholas Sanson, French cartographer, was born at Abbeville, Picardy, and educated at Amiens. At the age of 18 he drew a map of Gaul. Sanson taught geography to Louis XIII and Louis XIV and Louis XIII, who he is said to have stayed with in Abbeville. In ‘Pharus Galliae Antiquae’ Sanson accused the French Jesuit writer Philippe Labbe of plagiarising his work. Sanson died in Paris in 1667. His eldest son was killed during the Fronde (the French civil war of 1648-53) but two other sons, Adrien (died 1708) and Guillaume (died 1703), succeeded their father as geographers to the king.

Places

Caucasus, Russia, Georgia

Subjects

map (as Subject), topography, cartouche, townscape/cityscape

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Nicolas Sanson (1600 - 1667)
Jean, ("Pruthenus") Somer

Title

Description de la Tartarie

Date

1654

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 44.20 cm, width: 59.00 cm

Acquisition

Bequest of Noel H. Marshall, 2008

Provenance

Bequest of Noel H. Marshall CMG, 2008

GAC number

18245