Johann Christian Marchand
Johann Christian Marchand (1680 Dresden - 1711 Nürnberg) was a German artist, etcher and engraver. He is better known for his engravings of portraits and historical subjects, but he appears to have done extensive work for Johan Baptist Homann - some of the first plates of the maps appearing in the Homann Atlas bear his imprint, and more may have been submitted anonymously.
Reconciling new discovery and Ptolemaic Geography.
Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio.
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This is the scarce first plate of Johann Baptist Homann's 1707 map of Africa in a beautiful early strike, with rich, original color. Here, Homann attempts to reconcile the discovery of Lake Tana in Abysinna (source of the Blue Nile) with established Ptolemaic geography - and, in doing so, commits a grave error! (more details)