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Digital Image: 1823 Coste Folding Map of the Mahmudiyya Canal, Egypt
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Title
Plan du Nouveau Canal d'Alexandrie dit Mahmoudyeh.
1823 (undated) 15 x 19.75 in (38.1 x 50.165 cm) 1 : 153000
1823 (undated) 15 x 19.75 in (38.1 x 50.165 cm) 1 : 153000
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Cartographer S
Xavier Pascal Coste (November 26, 1787 - February 8, 1879) was a French engineer and architect with a distinguished career in France, North Africa, and the Middle East. Born in Marseilles, Coste showed artistic promise from a young age and studied in the studio of architect Michel-Robert Penchaud (1772 - 1833). In 1814, he entered into the École des Beaux-Arts, where a friend connected him to Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, who took Coste as his personal architect in 1817. Coste would spend most of the next twelve years in Egypt, where the pasha designated him the chief engineer of Lower Egypt. He also published several scholarly works, including a well-received overview of Arab architecture. After returning to France for health reasons in 1829, Coste became a professor of architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he had a long and distinguished career. He was known for a long trip through Persia with painter Eugène Flandin (1809 - 1889). In 1844, he was appointed chief architect of Marseilles. Coste's reputation was such that he was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur shortly before his death. More by this mapmaker...
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (November 2, 1785 - December 5, 1836) was a French lithographer, etcher, and draughtsman based in Paris and London. Little is known of his life and training, but he began operations around 1818 in Paris. In the late 1820s, he worked closely with the printer and published J. P. Quénot. Around 1830, Motte opened a London branch, which was sold or otherwise passed on to engraver and printer Alfred Ducôte. In the early 1830s, when his career seems to have peaked, he was listed as a 'éditeur lithographe du roi.' Learn More...
Source
Mengin, F., Histoire de l'Egypte sous le gouvernement de Mohammed-Aly..., (Paris: Arthus Bertrand) 1823.