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Digital Image: 1789 Delarochette Map of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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Title
Das Vorgebirg der Guten Hofnung Verfasst von Herrn L.S. de la Rochette Neu Herausgegeben von Herrn. F.A. Schraembl.
1789 (dated) 20.5 x 14 in (52.07 x 35.56 cm)
1789 (dated) 20.5 x 14 in (52.07 x 35.56 cm)
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Cartographer S
Louis Stanislaw d'Arcy Delarochette (1731 - 1802) was a British cartographer and engraver active in London, England in the late 18th century. Delarochette produced numerous maps in conjunction with various other contemporary British cartographers including Faden, Jefferys, Laurie and Whittle, Arrowsmith, and Bowles. Delarochette is perhaps best known for his monumental eight sheet map of South America, which was used to settle numerous border disputes throughout the continent. He also produced an influential map of the Cape of Good Hope, a fine map of the West Indies, and worked with Sayer and Kitchin on their A new map of North America wherein the British Dominions in the continent of North America, and on the islands of the West Indies, are carefully laid down from all the surveys, hitherto made... More by this mapmaker...
Franz Anton Schrämbl (Schraembl; 1751 - December 13, 1803) was a Vienna-based cartographer working in the later part of the 18th century. Schrämbl was born in Vienna. He became director of the normal school in Troppau but soon quit to set up a bookshop in Vienna. In 1787, with fellow Austrian Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly (1766 - 1820), he founded a publishing firm. He began his great work, the Allgemeiner Grosser Atlas, in the same year. This ambitious large format atlas was to be based upon only the most up-to-date cartographic information available, among them cartographers J. B. B. D'Anville (1697 - 1782) and James Rennel (1742 - 1830), and explorers such as James Cook (1728 - 1779), Charles Roberts (1739 - 1825), and others. The atlas was published in 1800 and became the first Austrian commercial world atlas. The work experienced minimal circulation, possibly due to its high cost. The low sales nearly drove Schrämbl into insolvency, but he recovered through diversification into literature and art books. When Franz Anton died in 1803, his widow Johanna and her brother, the engraver Karl Robert Schindelmayer (1769 - 1839), assumed control of the firm. In 1825, his son, Eduard Schrämbl, took over. Learn More...