Collin, Charles-Étienne
Charles-Étienne Collin (1770 - 1840) was a French engraver active in Paris during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Collin was born in Paris to a long line of important French engravers dating back to Jean Collin. He was the son of Bernard Collin (1737 - 1791), son of Jean. Collin engraved for the seminal 1809 - 1822 Description de l'Egypte and extensively for the Dépôt de la Marine. He was contracted by his cousin by marriage, Phillipe Buache (1700 - 1773), for his exceptional engraving mastery to work for the Dépôt de la Marine from at least August 1793. He worked with his brother, Jean-Louis Collin (1775 - 1858), from 1800 to 1803. His son, also Charles-Étienne Collin or just Étienne Collin II (1790 - 1852), apprenticed under him and worked with him from 1821 to 1829. Under Charles-Étienne Collin (1770 - 1840) and then his son, the firm was located in Paris at N° 45, Rue de la Harpe - the last known work attributed to 'E. Collin' appeared in 1831. Distinguishing between the 'Collin' family of engravers on Dépôt de la Marine charts is difficult. The elder Étienne Collin (1770 - 1840) typically signed his work 'E. Collin' or later 'E. Collin père'. His son signs some of his work as 'E. Collin' and others as 'C.E. Collin fils.' There is some evidence of another generation of Collin engravers, also Charles-Étienne Collin, signing his work as 'C. E. Collin' between 1840 and 1875.
At the height of the Haitian Revolution, when a former slave's rise to power that undermined the foundations of the plantation system.
Carte de la Partie Occidentale des Îles Antilles Comprenant St. Domingue, La Jamaique, Cuba et Îles et Bancs de Bahama avec les Débouqumens de toutes ces Îles Dressée d'apres les nouvelles Observations des Espagnols et Publiée Par Ordre du Xontre-Amiral Decrès Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies au Dépôt général de la Marine, en 1801.
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A striking 1801 French Dépôt de la Marine nautical chart of Florida and the Greater Antilles, encompassing Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. Issued at the height of the Haitian Revolution, the map coincides with the rise of the former slave and revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, who had just unified Hispaniola under his authority, sending shockwaves through the slaveholding societies of the Atlantic world. Published as Napoleon Bonaparte prepared his massive Saint-Domingue Expedition to reclaim France's richest colony, this chart reflects the sudden strategic importance of the Caribbean's sea lanes, making it an artifact of one of history's most transformative revolutions. (more details)
Second earliest, and earliest obtainable scientific map of the Galapagos.
Carte d'une Partie de L'Archipel des Galapagos Levée et dressée en 1838 à bord de la Vénus...
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An extraordinary discovery, this is Urbain Dortet de Tessan's 1842 nautical map of the Galapagos Islands, considered the second scientific map of the Galapagos. The map is the result of survey work performed in July of 1836 on the westward circumnavigation of the Vénus under Admiral Abel Aubert Dupetit-Thouars. The Vénus's visit to the Galapagos followed Darwin by just one year, and thus Beagle hydrographer Robert Fitzroy's contemporaneous mapping of the archipelago. This chart, published in 1842, and Fitzroy's chart, published in 1841, constitute the first comprehensive nautical overview of the islands and are comparable in both rarity and significance. (more details)