Nouvelle carte pour conduire à la connoissance de la Marine - Sailing ship and nautical navigation chart by Henry Chatelain, 1712 art print poster canvas gift

Nouvelle carte pour conduire à la connoissance de la Marine et à démontrer la plus part des instruments qui servent à cet art et à connoitre la construction des vaisseaux et les agrets pour servir à acquérir cette connoissance avec des remarques". Sailing War Ship and marine navigation instruments chart by Henry Abraham Chatelain, published in 1712, in his "Atlas Historique, ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, a la chronologie & a la geographie ancienne & moderne." The engraved and hand-coloured chart describes basics of shipbuilding and nautical instruments and has a numbered identification key for over 100 parts of the sailing ship. Smaller inset engravings show a wind rose, several types of ship, methods of naval combat, compass, sextant and quadrant.

Henry Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) was a Huguenot pastor, originally from Paris. He is best know as a Dutch cartographer and engraver, and an author of monumental work in seven volumes "Atlas Historic", published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. The atlas included 285 engraved maps, charts and views, as well as accompanying texts, on geography, history, ethnology, heraldry and cosmography.

This poster is a high quality "giclée" reproduction of a painstakingly restored antique original, custom-printed on Standard Single-weight Matt Coated art paper 140gsm or  Heavyweight Matt Coated art paper 230gsm (more of a thin card density), or superb Epson Matt Canvas 320gsm, according to your choice. We use the latest UltraChromeHDX pigment inks which guarantee 60 years of colour  permanence (up to 200 years fade-proof for colour prints).  This poster is suitable for mounting and framing, as well as direct display on a wall.