Antique Print-ANCIENT INDIA-SRI LANKA-INDOCHINA-MALAYSIA-d’Anville-1788

Map of ancient India, Indochina and Malaysia. Inset of Ceylon/Sri Lanka according to C. Ptolemy below.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 44 x 51.5 cm (17.32 x 20.28 inch). Image size: 37.5 x 45 cm. (14.76 x 17.72 inch).

Condition: fair, given age. Mounted on linen. Many creases and folds. Paper slightly browned and foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ANCIENT INDIA-SRI LANKA-INDOCHINA-MALAYSIA | RBOS-T.30-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Nurnberg in 1788 by Wigel/Schneider.

Biography engraver: Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782) was a geographer and cartographer from France. His fame was established through his historical maps, which shows careful accurate work and are based largely on original research.