| Culture: | cartographer: French; publisher: German
| | Title: | map: Carte generale des postes de France avec les Postes de communication en Flandre, Haynavt, Artois, Alsace, Lombardie & C.
| | Date Made: | 1745
| | Type: | Map
| | Materials: | paper, ink, watercolor, gouache
| | Place Made: | Germany; Nuremburg
| | Measurements: | overall: 21 in x 25 1/2 in; 53.3 cm x 64.8 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 67.221
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Map titled "Carte generale des postes de France avec les Postes de communication en Flandre, Haynavt, Artois, Alsace, Lombardie & C. tiree del. original, que M. Jaillot a corrige et augmente l'an 1738. Mise an jour par les Heritiers de Homann A. 1745." ("General Map of the posts of France with the posts of communication in Flanders, Haynavt, Artois, Alsace, Lombardy, etc., drawn from the original, which N. Jaillot has corrected and augmented. Taken from the heirs of Homann.1745." The large decorative cartouche in the lower left corner reads: "Gallia Post arvm geographic designata in qua Cursus Postarum secun dum Satum Anni 1738 recentissimum ex archetypo Jaillotiano reprocantantur, edentibus, Homannianis Norib. Anno 1745." The cartouche also has two postmen galloping on their horses. The provincial boundaries are colored green or red; the cartouche border is blue; and the exterior border is yellow. The cartographer was a member of the Jaillot family, and the map was updated by cartographer Bernard-Jean-Hyacinthe Jaillot (1673-1739) in 1738. The map was published by the hiers of the Homann firm, which had been founded by German mapmaker Johann Baptiste Homann (1663-1724) in 1702. On his death, his family-run firm was continued by his son Johannes Christophorus Homann (1703-1730). Johannes willed the firm to his two trusted managers, Johann George Ebersberger (1695-1760), his brother-in-law, and Johann Michael Franz (1700-1761), with their willed obligations being that they would publish any future work from his father's existing plates with the engraved epithet "Homann Heirs." In 1755, J.M. Franz retired to make way for his son. After Ebersberger death in 1760, his son-in-law succeeded him. Ebersberger and Franz and generally maintain quality production to their cards except for a brief period where the maps appear less developed (1755-1760). From 1769, production moved towards regional atlases. The firm of Homann Heirs closed in 1852.
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