Italiae, Sardiniae, Corsicae et confinium Regionum nova Tabula effigies praecipuarum Urbium et habituum inibi simul complecte
| Reference: | S48048 |
| Author | Jean Le Clerc |
| Year: | 1610 |
| Zone: | Italy |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 470 x 350 mm |
| Reference: | S48048 |
| Author | Jean Le Clerc |
| Year: | 1610 |
| Zone: | Italy |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 470 x 350 mm |
Description
Title at upper right within decorative cartouche: Italiae, Sardiniae, Corsicae et confinium Regionum nova Tabula effigies praecipuarum Urbium et habituum inibi simul complecte. Printing details at bottom: francois de la hoeye fecit and A Paris Chez Jean Le Clerc Excudit 1610.
Very rare and undescribed map of the peninsula engraved by Francois van den Hoeye and published in Paris by Jean Le Clerc in 1610.
This is a faithful derivation of the first carte à figures of Italy, published by Willelm Janszoon Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1606.
The decorative border is removed; two decorative elements are, instead, added: a couple in typical dress ("Italiae habitus") in the lower left and the she-wolf with twins, an allegory of Rome, in the lower right. The rest of the decorative elements - the cartouche and the sailing ships in the sea - match Blaeu's prototype perfectly. The author also inserts the exact same title: Italiae, Sardiniae, Corsicae et confinium Regionum nova Tabula effigies praecipuarum Urbium et habituum inibi simul complecte. Forgetting, however, that he did not represent the "effigies praecipuarum Urbium et habituum" present in Blaeu's ornamental frame.
The rarity of the map is absolute; not only is it not included in Roberto Borri's publications on maps of Italy, but not even mentioned among the maps in Mirelle Pastoreau's French atlases.
Francois van den Hoeye (active 1600-1636) was an engraver and publisher of map and prints; he was a native of Amsterdam and active in the Dutch capital in Paris. It was probably through him that Le Clerc engaged in the production, for the French market, of derivations of maps printed in Holland. It is unclear whether he enjoyed some kind of authorization or they were pirated derivations.
On the matter, he had already expressed himself, asking the same questions, Louis Loeb-Larocque: “Jean Leclerc était membre d'une dynastie de libraires et éditeur d'estampes que la Biographie Nationale appelle Jean III et F. de Dainville Jean II, et que nour appellerons simplement Jean. Il était né à Paris en 1560, fils d'un imprimeur- éditeur établi rue Montorgueil. Pendant les troubles de la Ligue, toute la famille s'était réfugié à Tours où Jean devint un des collaborateurs de Bouguereau, le célèbre éditeur du premier atlas de la France. Le séjour à Tours de la famille durait de 1589 à 1594, date à laquelle elle est rentrée à Paris où Jean s'installe rue Saint-Jean-de-Latran, à l'enseigne de la Salamandre, qui devient la Salamandre royale en 1601. En 1602 Jean publie les 5 cartes de Jodocus Hondius l'ainé. Comme c'est la première fois que Jean entreprend ce genre de publications, deux questions se posent: pourquoi cet intérêt soudain pour les cartes et pourquoi Jodocus Hondius? Pour répondre à la prémiere question, il est probable que la fréquentation de Bouguereau, qui d'ailleurs a disparu aux environs de 1596/97, lui ait donné l'idée de publier des cartes géographiques. Il est plus difficile de répondre à la deuxième question; Jodocus Hondius l'ainé, après un exil à Londres, étauit rentré à Amsterdam en 1593, date à laquelle avait paru sa carte 'Inferior Germania'. Plusieurs autres cartes publiées avant 1602 portent le nom de Hondius, i.a. la grande carte de la France en 4 feuilles sur laquelle on lit pour la première fois: 'Excusum in aedibus Iudoci Hondij Amsterodami', publiée en 1600. Par ailleurs, Hondius collaborait avec Cornelis Claeszoon, 'the most important publisher in Amsterdam at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century in the field of cartography'. Il est donc impossible, à l'heure actuelle, de savoir pourquoi soudainement Hondius fait publier cinq cartes importantes à Paris par un éditeur pour ainsi dire inconnu” (cfr. Louis Loeb-Larocque Ces Hollandaises habillées a Paris ou l’exploitation de la cartographie hollandaise par les éditeurs parisiens au XVIIe siècle pp. 15-17)
Jean Le Clerc was an engraver, bookseller and publisher in Paris and Tours.
Le Clerc was baptized on August 16, 1560 in Paris, with the engraver François Desprez (1530–1587) and the painter Jérôme Bollery (1532–1592) as his godfathers. He came from a family of printers and publishers - Jean's younger brother David Le Clerc (1561–1613) and Jean's own son Jean Le Clerc V were both book printers and publishers.
He had proved himself by 1587, at which date he was living and working on Rue Chartière in Paris. For religous reasons, as a Huguenot he fled Paris in 1588 and spent a year elsewhere in France. From 1590 to 1594 he took refuge in Tours, where he worked with the publisher and cartographer Maurice Bouguereau (15??–1596), who created Le Theatre Francoys, the first atlas of France. Le Clerc later worked at several different addresses in Paris - on Rue Saint-Jean-de-Latran until 1610 and then on Rue Saint-Jacques until 1621/24.
Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper and hand-colored at the time, trimmed at the platemark and with contemporary margins added, slight abrasion on verso at left side of sheet, otherwise in very good condition. Very rare map.
Jean Le Clerc (Parigi 1560 - 1633 circa)
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Jean Le Clerc (1560 - 1621) was a French bookseller, engraver, and publisher active in Paris during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Le Clerc was baptized on August 16, 1560 in Paris, with the engraver François Desprez (1530–1587) and the painter Jérôme Bollery (1532–1592) as his godfathers. He came from a family of printers and publishers - Jean's younger brother David Le Clerc (1561–1613) and Jean's own son Jean Le Clerc V were both book printers and publishers. He had proved himself by 1587, at which date he was living and working on Rue Chartière in Paris. For religous reasons, as a Huguenot he fled Paris in 1588 and spent a year elsewhere in France. From 1590 to 1594 he took refuge in Tours, where he worked with the publisher and cartographer Maurice Bouguereau (15??–1596), who created Le Theatre Francoys, the first atlas of France. Le Clerc later worked at several different addresses in Paris - on Rue Saint-Jean-de-Latran until 1610 and then on Rue Saint-Jacques until 1621/24.
Jean Le Clerc's publications included portraits, maps, contemporary news events and other engravings by Jacques Granthomme (1560–1613), Pierre Firens (1580–1636) and Léonard Gaultier (1561–1635). He collaborated with the Dutch printmaker Thomas de Leu (1560–1612) to produce a collection of 179 biblical scenes, allegories, calendar pages and other works, probably published in 1606. They both produced engravings for it themselves as well as using works by Justus Sadeler (1580–1620), Isaac Briot (1585–1670) and Nicolas Briot (1579–1646).
On December 20, 1619 Le Clerc was granted a six-year royal concession to "engrave maps of the provinces of France and portraits of patriarchs and princes of the Hebrew people, with a chronological history". In 1620 he published his Le Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France, including newer plates as well as reworked plates from Bouguereau's work. The new plates were produced by artists such as Jean Fayen (1530–1616), Jodocus Hondius (1563–1612), Salomon Rogiers (1592–1640) and Hugues Picart (1587–1664). It went through several editions and Jean Le Clerc V continued to reissue it after his father's death.
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Jean Le Clerc (Parigi 1560 - 1633 circa)
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Jean Le Clerc (1560 - 1621) was a French bookseller, engraver, and publisher active in Paris during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Le Clerc was baptized on August 16, 1560 in Paris, with the engraver François Desprez (1530–1587) and the painter Jérôme Bollery (1532–1592) as his godfathers. He came from a family of printers and publishers - Jean's younger brother David Le Clerc (1561–1613) and Jean's own son Jean Le Clerc V were both book printers and publishers. He had proved himself by 1587, at which date he was living and working on Rue Chartière in Paris. For religous reasons, as a Huguenot he fled Paris in 1588 and spent a year elsewhere in France. From 1590 to 1594 he took refuge in Tours, where he worked with the publisher and cartographer Maurice Bouguereau (15??–1596), who created Le Theatre Francoys, the first atlas of France. Le Clerc later worked at several different addresses in Paris - on Rue Saint-Jean-de-Latran until 1610 and then on Rue Saint-Jacques until 1621/24.
Jean Le Clerc's publications included portraits, maps, contemporary news events and other engravings by Jacques Granthomme (1560–1613), Pierre Firens (1580–1636) and Léonard Gaultier (1561–1635). He collaborated with the Dutch printmaker Thomas de Leu (1560–1612) to produce a collection of 179 biblical scenes, allegories, calendar pages and other works, probably published in 1606. They both produced engravings for it themselves as well as using works by Justus Sadeler (1580–1620), Isaac Briot (1585–1670) and Nicolas Briot (1579–1646).
On December 20, 1619 Le Clerc was granted a six-year royal concession to "engrave maps of the provinces of France and portraits of patriarchs and princes of the Hebrew people, with a chronological history". In 1620 he published his Le Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France, including newer plates as well as reworked plates from Bouguereau's work. The new plates were produced by artists such as Jean Fayen (1530–1616), Jodocus Hondius (1563–1612), Salomon Rogiers (1592–1640) and Hugues Picart (1587–1664). It went through several editions and Jean Le Clerc V continued to reissue it after his father's death.
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