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1739 Turgot View and Map of Paris France Bretez Plaque

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For a professional display without a frame get a custom display plaque! Printed with a dye-sublimation process, your image colours are put directly on the hardboard panel for a stunningly crisp image. Protected with a UV resistant gloss, your plaque will be protected from scratches and fading for years to come.

  • Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 25.4 cm (8" x 10")
  • Hardboard panel with UV resistant coating
  • Comes with attached easel stand
  • Easy wipe-clean surface
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1739 Turgot View and Map of Paris France Bretez Plaque

1739 Turgot View and Map of Paris France Bretez Plaque

This is the c. 1900 Taride edition of Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot's monumental 1739 map of Paris. Turgot's map of Paris is possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken. Shows the whole of 18th century Paris and offers a wonderful perspective on the city prior to Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann’s 19th-century redesign. Turgot, who held the mayor-like office of Prévôt des Marchands de Paris , commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map in 1734. Oriented to the east on an axonometrical projection, this map is best understood as an aerial view where in every building, window, tree, shadow and park is shown. It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece. In order to produce the thousands of sketches and surveys required to complete this map, Bretez was issued a permit to enter every building in Paris. The completed map which consists of twenty individual sheets, can be assembled into a massive and striking display roughly 8 feet by 10 feet. Twenty-one loose sheets embraced in a marbled folio, this is Alphonse Taride's c. 1900 issue of Bretez's Plan de Paris .

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Product ID: 200398317974313732
Designed on 2013-03-20, 9:57 AM
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