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English: Title:Avenio Vulgo Avignon This plate is from the Atlas Van Loon, which contains two volumes of the French edition of the Willem Blaeu's Atlas Maior, covering France and Switzerland, from 1663. The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) has an uncoloured version of this engraving: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40571320g A scan of this copy is available from the Gallica website: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53079287p The BNF gives the date as 1690 and the size as 50 x 60 cm. In the BNF copy, the cartouche at the bottom right containing the scale bar includes the text "A Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, Avec Privilege". In addition, at the bottom right hand corner of the engraving is the number: "LXXI" According to the BNF, plate number LXXI is from the second volume of the Nouveau theatre d'Italie ou description exacte de ses villes, palais, églises ... et les cartes géographiques de toutes ses provinces...sur les Desseins de feu Monsieur Jean Blaeu that was published by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam in 1704. A copy of an uncoloured versions of this engraving is reproduced as Plate 2 in: Gagnière, S.; Granier, J. (1978). Images du Vieil Avignon (in French). Avignon: Rullière-Libeccio. Plate 2. This copy includes additional text in the cartouche at the bottom right: "A Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, Avec Privilege, LXXI" (the LXXI is included within the cartouche) The engraving is a copy of an earlier map in 8 panels dated 1618 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Va 84 Tome 1 H 159061-8). This is not currently available from Gallica. The panels of the 1618 map are reproduced in the 1958 book Évocation du Vieil Avignon by Joseph Girard. The 1618 map gives the authors as Marcus Antonius Gandolfus (Marco Antonio Gandolfo) and Theodorus Hochstraie (Théodore Hoochstraten, an engraver from The Hague) (Girard 1958, pp. 76-77). A low quality image of the 1618 map is available online on page 10 in the document available here. For more information on the 1618 map see: Breton, Alain (1986) "Prix-fait de la gravure du plan de 1618", Annuaire de la Société des amis du Palais des papes et des monuments d'Avignon, pp. 63-64. |
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| Date | 1663 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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There are difficulties with the depiction of the Pont Saint-Bénézet. Although less obvious in this picture, the 1618 version shows a partially obscured first pier of the bridge on the river bank (on the Avignon side). The second pier sits in the river and has a cutwater. The chapel is depicted on the third pier but in reality sits on the second pier. There are 23 piers depicted rather than the actual 22. If the partially obscured first pier is ignored then the chapel sits on correct pier but arch 6 is shown as collapsed. In the detailed drawings by the Jesuit architect Étienne Martellange arch 6 is shown as intact but arch 7 collapsed in 1608, 1609 and 1617. The river to the north of the town is labelled "SORGUE RIVIERE". This is an error - the river is the Rhône. The same error is present on the original 1618 map. (see Girard 1958, p. 78 "une erreur surprenante dans un document si étudié". Girard includes the panels showing La Sorgue between pages 150 and 151) |
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| References | Girard, Joseph (1958). Évocation du Vieil Avignon (in French). Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit. OCLC 5391399. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Atlas van Loon (Atlases from the Maritime Museum of the Scheepvaartmuseum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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