Catre de l‘Inde en Deca et au Dela du Gange

1829

Copper engraving on paper

Print size: 15.9 x 21.4 in (40.5 x 54.5 cm)
Sheet size: 17.3 x 23.4 in (44 x 59.5 cm)
With mount: 23.2 x 29.3 in (59 x 74.5 cm)

An excellent first edition example of M Lapie's 1829 map of India and Southeast Asia. All of modern India, Ceylon (or Sri Lanka), Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand (Siam), Burma, Vietnam (Annam), Laos, and Cambodia are included in the map, which formerly included all of Greater and Lesser India.

The majority of India was ruled by the British at the time this map was created. India, which had previously exported produced goods, now served as the British Empire's raw material supplier. By this point, the empire had also begun launching the nation's non-economic initiatives for social change, culture, and education. The majority of historians believe that this marks the official start of India's colonial era.

Armand Joseph Lallemand engraved this map, which is plate no. 35 in the first edition of M Lapie's influential Atlas Universel. This map, like all maps from the Atlas Universel features an embossed stamp from the Lapie firm.

Pierre M Lapie (fl. 1779 - 1850)
French cartographers and engravers Pierre M Lapie and his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (1809–1850) worked in the early 19th century. In the French army, the Lapies were commissioned officers with the titles of Colonel and Capitaine, respectively. Alexander took great pleasure in bearing the title "First Geographer to the King" which can be found on a number of his atlases. Father and son were meticulous cartographers and superb engravers. Working individually and collectively they issued four key atlases, an 1811 Atlas of the French Empire (Alexander), the 1812 Atlas Classique et Universel (Pierre), the Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Modern (joint issue), and the 1848 Atlas Militaire (Alexander). They also released many smaller maps and separate editions. These are all incredibly detailed and beautiful things. The accurate engraving and dense content of the Lapie firm's maps had a significant impact on German commercial map publishers in the mid-19th century, who went on to dominate the continental market with their maps.

This map, plate no. 35 in the first edition of M Lapie's seminal Atlas Universel, was engraved by Armand Joseph Lallemand (c. 1810 - 1871). This map bears the imprinted stamp of the Lapie business, as do all Atlas Universel maps.

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