R1,800
Adrien Hubert Brue - CARTE GENERALE DE L'AFRIQUE
Paris: C Delagrave, (1822) [1875]
Copperplate engraving, centerfold, coloured by colonies, foxing along top section of centerfold, tanning from tape on verso at bottom of centerfold, top left corner: Atlas Universel en 67 feuilles_No52; top right corner: No.35; bottom left corner: No.30; bottom right corner: No.18; verso: blank, 2,5cm tape repair along bottom of centerfold, one sheet lightly tanned, pencil note
from Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique et Historique Ancienne et Modern
37 by 51,5cm
Contemporaries regarded Brue as the "best drawing geographer of France". A great achievement for someone who started his career as a fifteen year old stowaway on an explorer boat headed for Australia. After he was discovered on board he worked under the navigator and on their return to Paris continued working in the field.
Brue's two most important works were the Grand Atlas Universel (1815) and the Atlas Universel (1822). Both these are characterized by the high degree of accuracy and the meticulous care in the crafting of the copperplates. Unusually Brue used the technique of copper plate intaglio, that is drawing on the copper itself.
LITERATURE
Scott, V., Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (A-D), Riverside: Early World Press, 2003, p.199
Adrien Hubert Brue, Accessed 26 January 2021,
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