BEIJING TIANIIN CHINA 749 BELLIN ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW OF BEIJING TIANIIN Jo Si Wo entre Tyen Tsing Wey et Peking tirй de Nieuhof. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1749 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's copper engraved panoramic view of a village entre Beijing & Tianjin, China. several Chinese Junks complete the view. This plate has been published in the First French edition of Abbи Presvost’s “Histoire Gйnйrale des Voyages”, published by Didot at Paris, 1746-1758. Source: The Histoire Gйneral des Voyages was a monumental eighteenth century general history divided according to geographic region. The original volumes were written by Antoine Franзois Prйvost d'Exiles, a French author, novelist, theologian, natural historian, and a priest of the Jesuit and Benedictine orders, but continued by numerous other authors after Prйvost's death. The earliest books mostly deal with the Far East and South-East Asia, providing a general history of their regions, kingdoms, customs, culture, costumes, natural phenomena and religious beliefs. Much of Prйvost's information is derived from the reports of Jesuit missionaries, Portuguese merchants, and famous explorers, from Marco Polo to Sir Francis Drake. Although written in French, the popularity of the Histoire among Dutch audiences meant that many of the illustrative plates and maps published to accompany the work were either re-engraved or subtitled in Dutch by the engraver Jakob van der Schley. Prйvost himself had travelled widely throughout the Netherlands, launching his literary career in Amsterdam and the Hague after fleeing the Benedictines in France. Prevost's work on China, and indeed many of van der Schley's plates, owe a great debt to Johan Nieuhoff (1618-1672) , a Dutch traveller who explored much of China, India, and Brazil while in the employ of the Dutch East India Company. Nieuhoff wrote extensively, with a particular focus on China, for his memoirs, and his numerous drawings of Chinese places and people were much copied by later engravers for numerous works of Chinese interest. Nieuhoff's own book became a major source of inspiration for eighteenth century chinoiserie, and are amongst the first western illustrations to depict the Chinese people in a manner which was based upon personal observation rather than the tradition of oriental fantasy. Date: 1749 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 36,2 x 25,1 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map contemporary handcolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Plate washed. Plate folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - March 21, 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century. With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as geographe de cabinet and transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early-19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingйnieur Hydrographe at the French Dйpфt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. A true child of the Enlightenment Era, Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot's Encyclopedie. Bellin, despite his extraordinary success, may not have enjoyed his work, which is described as "long, unpleasant, and hard." In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingйnieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne. Writer: Antoine Franзois Prйvost d'Exiles (1 April 1697 - 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbй Prйvost, was a French author and novelist. He was born at Hesdin, Artois, and first appears with the full name of Prйvost d'Exiles, in a letter to the booksellers of Amsterdam in 1731. His father, Lievin Prйvost, was a lawyer, and several members of the family had embraced the ecclesiastical estate. Prйvost was educated at the Jesuit school of Hesdin, and in 1713 became a novice of the order in Paris, pursuing his studies at the same time at the college in La Flиche. At the end of 1716 he left the Jesuits to join the army, but soon tired of military life, and returned to Paris in 1719, apparently with the idea of resuming his novitiate. He is said to have travelled in the Netherlands about this time; in any case he returned to the army, this time with a commission. Some biographers have assumed that he suffered some of the misfortunes assigned to his hero Des Grieux. Whatever the truth, he joined the learned community of the Benedictines of St Maur, with whom he found refuge, he himself says, after the unlucky termination of a love affair. He took his vows at Jumiиges in 1721 after a year's novitiate, and in 1726 took priest's orders at St Germer de Flaix. He spent seven years in various houses of the order, teaching, preaching and studying. In 1728 he was sent to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prйs, Paris, where he contributed to the Gallia Christiana, a work of historiographic documentation undertaken communally by the monks in continuation of the works of Denys de Sainte-Marthe, who had been a member of their order. His restless spirit made him seek from the Pope a transfer to the easier rule of Cluny; but he left the abbey without leave (1728), and, learning that his superiors had obtained a lettre de cachet against him, fled to England. In London he acquired a wide knowledge of English history and literature, as can be seen in his writings. Before leaving the Benedictines Prйvost had begun perhaps his most famous novel, Mйmoires et aventures d’un homme de qualitй qui s’est retirй du monde, the first four volumes of which were published in Paris in 1728, and two years later at Amsterdam. In 1729 he left England for the Netherlands, where he began to publish (Utrecht, 1731) a novel, the material of which, at least, had been gathered in London Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell, йcrite par lui-mкme, et traduite de l'anglais (Paris 1731-1739, 8 vols., but most of the existing sets are partly Paris and partly Utrecht). A spurious fifth volume (Utrecht, 1734) contained attacks on the Jesuits, and an English translation of the whole appeared in 1734. Meanwhile, during his residence at the Hague, he engaged on a translation of De Thou's Historia, and, relying on the popularity of his first book, published at Amsterdam a Suite in three volumes, forming volumes v, vi, and vii of the original Mйmoires et aventures d’un homme de qualitй. The seventh volume contained the famous Manon Lescaut, separately published in Paris in 1731 as Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. The book was eagerly read, chiefly in pirated copies, being forbidden in France. In 1733 he left the Hague for London in company of a lady whose character, according to Prйvost's enemies, was doubtful. In London he edited a weekly gazette on the model of Joseph Addison's Spectator, Le Pour et contre, which h e continued to produce in collaboration with the playwright Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc, with short intervals, until 1740. In the autumn of 1734 Prйvost was reconciled with the Benedictines, and, returning to France, was received in the Benedictine monastery of La Croix-Saint-Leufroy in the diocese of Йvreux to pass through a new, though brief, novitiate. In 1735 he was dispensed from residence in a monastery by becoming almoner to the Prince de Conti, and in 1754 obtained the priory of St Georges de Gesnes. He continued to produce novels and translations from the English, and, with the exception of a brief exile (1741-1742) spent in Brussels and Frankfurt, he resided for the most part at Chantilly until his death, which took place suddenly while he was walking in the neighbouring woods. The cause of his death, the rupture of an aneurysm, is all that is definitely known. Stories of crime and disaster were related of Prйvost by his enemies, and diligently repeated, but appear to be apocryphal. --- Яркая и очень детализированная прекрасная необычная гравюра - оттиск с медной пластины - Жака-Николя Беллина 1749 года с панорамным видом на деревню между Пекином и Тяньцзинем, Китай. Гравюр из книги Antoine Franзois Prйvost (Abbй Prйvost) «Histoire gйnйrale des voyages», 1 издание, опубликованной Didot в Париже, 1746-1758. Размер листа 36,2 x 25,1. Бумага верже с водными знаками в виде характерной "решетки", в отличной сохранности. Антуа́н Франсуа́ Прево́ (фр. Antoine-Franзois Prйvost), более известный как абба́т Прево́, с его собственным добавлением Ссыльный один из крупнейших французских писателей XVIII века, История путешествий (Antoine Franзois Prйvost “Histoire gйnйrale des voyages”, 15 vols., Paris, 1746-1759) - это монументальная общая история восемнадцатого века, разделенная по географическим регионам. Оригинальные тома были написаны Антуаном Франсуа Прево д’Эксилом, но были продолжены многими другими авторами после его смерти. Самые ранние книги в основном касаются Дальнего Востока и Юго-Восточной Азии, освещают общую историю регионов, королевств, обычаев, культуры, костюмов, природных явлений и религиозных верований. Большая часть информации Прево получена из отчетов миссионеров-иезуитов, португальских купцов и известных исследователей, от Марко Поло до сэра Фрэнсиса Дрейка. Несмотря на то, что «История» написана на французском языке, популярность «Истории» среди голландской публики означала, что многие иллюстративные пластины и карты, опубликованные для сопровождения работы, были либо повторно выгравированы, либо снабжены дополнительными надписями на голландском (предположительно и на немецком) языке гравером Якобом ван дер Шлеем (Jakob van der Schley). 25000 rub AW 9463 Жак Никола Беллин (Jacques Nicolas Bellin) - известный французский гидрограф и географ родился в Париже. Он был гидрографом французского гидрографического отделения, членом Морской Академии и Королевского общества Лондона. За 50-летнюю карьеру Беллин подготовил большое количество карт, представлявших особый интерес для Ministиre de la Marine. Его карты Канады и французских территорий в Северной Америке (Новая Франция, Акадия, Луизиана) особенно ценны. Беллин создал ряд морских атласов мира, например, Atlas Maritime и Hydrographie Francaise. Атласы были весьма востребованы по всей Европе и переиздавались на протяжении 18-го и даже в 19-м веке. Беллин также создал карты меньшего формата, такие как в Petit Atlas Maritime (5 томов, 1764 год), содержащим 580 мелкодетализированных карт. Беллин задал очень высокий уровень мастерства и точности, благодаря чему Франция стала ведущей державой в европейской картографии и географии. Многие из его карт были скопированы другими картографами Европы.