Kaart van de kusten van Persië, Guzaratte en Malabar

1773

Later hand-coloured copper engraving on paper

Without mount: 10.4 x 8.2 in (26.6 x 21 cm)
With mount: 15.7 x 13.5 in (39.9 x 34.3 cm)

Dutch edition of this charming map of the Arabian Sea with the coasts of Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and India. Includes a good depiction of the Maldives and Lakshadweep islands. The very large title cartouche features a fanciful seahorse and a merman. Engraved by Jakob van Schley includes large decorative cartouche and compass rose. Explanation in the second cartridge of the places with astronomical observations.

Detailed map of the region from the mouth of the Persian Gulf to the Maldives. Map of the coast of Iran to the west coast of India

Jakob van Schley (1715-1779)
Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley was an accomplished engraver and draughtsman who worked out of Amsterdam and was closely connected to the Hague. Bernard Picart was his trainer, and the older man's style is evident in him.

He was also well-known for his finely engraved frontispieces and portraits and producing illustrations for La Vie de Marianne by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763), published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747. He also engraved the frontispieces for a 15-volume edition of the complete works of Pierre de Brantome (1540-1614), Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantome, published in The Hague in 1740.

His signature appears on the majority of the plates used in the Hague version of Abbé Prevost's, Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues. The present lot is plate 10 from the same book.

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