Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Atlas universel // [Universal atlas].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 06/GC077/Half Folio/18th c. GA 2012.01400
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcfj236g51h
Publisher
Paris : [s.n.], 1757.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1757
Extent
1 item ; sheet 51 x 37.1 cm.
References
Phillips, 619 (1757, 1758)
Pedley. Belle et utile, p. 227
Fordham, Studies in Cartobibligraphy p. 165
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Allegorical scene with Apollo riding chariot above; putti surrounding globe at lower center; Athena beside Caduceus at lower right corner; figures representing different continents in the remaining three corners.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Grave par Ch. Baquoy".
Signed in plate, lower right: "J. Oger scripsit".
Inscribed in plate, center: 'par M. Robert geographe ordinaire du Roy, et par M. Robert De Vaugondy son fils geographe ord. du Roy, et de S. M. Polonoise, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, et Associe de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres de Nancy, Avec Privilege Du Roy, 1757' (by Robert, ordinary geographer to the King, and M. Robert De Vaugondy ordinary geographer to the King, and S. M. Polonoise, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Associates of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters of Nancy, with privilege of the King, 1757).

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Subject
Illustration of books—France—18th century—Specimens
Atlases—France—1757
French literature—18th century—Illustrations
Title pages—Specimens
Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766. Atlas Universel—Illustrations
Symbolism in art
Cherubs (Art)
Athena (Greek deity)—Art
Apollo (Deity)—Art
Caduceus in art
Gods, Greek, in art
Goddesses, Greek, in art
Leaves (gathered matter).
Art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bfcba6fd-e459-4afd-bce4-6a75404dbde9/manifest