Frames that speak : cartouches on early modern maps / by Chet Van Duzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- author.

Series:

Mapping the past, 2589-9945 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartouches, Ornamental (Decorative arts).

Cartography--History.

Cartography.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portrait ; 30 cm.

Other Title:

Cartouches on early modern maps

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests-so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Covering emptiness with a hope for peace : Gerard Mercator, Nova et aucta orbis terrae descriptio ad usum navigantium, 1569

The gaze of the sea monster : Ignazio Danti's map of Sardinia in the Galleria delle carte geografiche, 1580-82

An exotic medicine from the tombs of Egypt : Daniel Cellarius, Asiae nova descriptio, c.1590

New personifications of the continents : Jodocus Hondius, Nova et exacta totius orbis terrarum descriptio, 1608

Cosmographers in the southern ocean : Pieter van den Keere, Nova totius orbis mappa, c.1611

Ingratitude bites kindness : Jodocus Hondius, Novissima ac exactissima totius orbis terrarum descriptio, 1611 / 1634

Eurocentrism on display : Arnold Floris van Langren, terrestrial globe, 1630-32

The giddy pleasures of Mise en abyme : Willem Hondius, Nova totius Brasiliae et locorum a Societate Indiae Occidentalis captorum descriptio, 1635

The cartographer's self-portrait : Georg Vischer, Archiducatus Austriae inferioris, 1670 / 1697

Scheming for control in the new world : Claude Bernou, Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale et partie de la méridionale, c.1682

Unveiling text, interpreting allegory : Vincenzo Coronelli, terrestrial globe, 1688

Concealing and revealing the source of the Nile : Vincenzo Coronelli, L'Africa divisa nelle sue parti, 1689

Propaganda in a cartouche : Vincenzo Coronelli, Paralello geografico dell'antico col moderno archipelago, 1692

If it bleeds, it leads : David Funck, Infelicis regni Siciliae tabula, c.1693

Celebrating a triumph of engineering : Jean-Baptiste Nolin, Le canal royal de Languedoc, 1697

The battle between light and darkness : Heinrich Scherer, Repraesentatio totius Africae, 1703

A map in the map as prophesy : Nicolas Sanson and Antoine de Winter, Geographiae Sacrae Tabula, 1705

"One of the most singular stories of extreme hardships" : Pieter van der Aa, Scheeps togt van Iamaica gedaan na Panuco en Rio de las Palmas, 1706

Crimson splendor : Nicolas Sanson, Téatre de la Guerre en Flandre & Brabant, c.1710

Generals presenting maps to the emperor : Johann Baptist Homann, Leopoldi Magni Filio Iosepho I. Augusto Romanorum & Hungariae Regi ..., c.1705-11

How to build a giant cartouche : Nicolas de Fer, Carte de la mer du Sud et de la mer du Nord, 1713

Advertising makes its entrance : George Willdey, Map of North America, 1715

The collapse of the Mississippi bubble : Matthäus Seutter, Accurata delineatio Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane, c.1728

"The link of the human race for both utility and pleasure" : Matthäus Seutter, Postarum seu cursorum publicorum diverticula en mansiones per Germaniam, c.1731

Kill the cannibals and convert the rest : Jean-Baptiste Nolin, II, L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, 1740

The cartographer and the shogun : Matthäus Seutter, Regni Japoniae nova mappa geographica, c.1745

The illusionistic roll of the cartouche : Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Carte de la terre des Hebreux ou Israelites, 1745

A cartographic balancing act : Matthäus Seutter, Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada, c.1756

Impartial border, Partisan cartouche : Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Mapa geografico de America Meridional, 1775

A tactile illusion that legitimates the map : Henry Pelham, A plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, 1777

Fighting back against colonial cartography : José Joaquim da Rocha, Mappa da Comarca do Sabará pertencente a Capitania de Minas Gerais (c.1778)

The actors begin to leave the stage : Jean Janvier, Maps of 1761, 1769, and 1774; Robert de Vaugondy, Map of 1778; John Purdy, Map of 1809

A map on a map on a map : John Randel, Jr., The City of New York as Laid Out by the Commissioners, 1821.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- Frames that speak

ISBN:

9789004505186

9004505180

OCLC:

1371747748

Publisher Number:

99994595759