Walch, Johannes (sold)
Johannes Walch (November 25, 1757 - March 23, 1815) was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of abusinessman, amateur painter and engraver Sebastian Walch; he received training as a miniature painter in Augsburg, Geneva and the Vienna Art Academy. After a two-year trip to Italy, he settled in Augsburg, where he married the eldest daughter of the Augsburg-based engraver and publisher Johann Martin Will, and worked in his father-in-law's publishing house. His contributions led the publisher to focus more heavily on As a result, the publisher increasingly turned to map production, heavily supported by the acquisition of material from Lotter and Seutter. After Will's death in 1806, Walch inherited the firm and continued to increase its importance as a map publisher. His son Johann Sebastian Walch (1787–1840) would inherit the publishing house.
Presenting the 18th Century Pacific Discoveries.
Australien (Südland) auch Polynesien oder Inselwelt, insgemein der fünfte Welttheil genannt: nach den neuesten und bewährtesten Hulfsmitteln entworfen.
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This is Johannes Walch's 1802 map of Australia and Oceania, including the East Indies, the Philippines, China, Korea, and Japan. Overall, Walch presents the whole as a 'Fifth part of the world,' extending further the terminology established by Ptolemy, in which the world - formerly composed of the three parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa - had already been amended with America, the Fourth part of the world. The map extends from Sumatra and Cambodia, eastwards to include Hawaii and the Marquesas Islands. It was printed in order to celebrate the exploration of the region of the prior two centuries, most particularly those of Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779). The map includes the Dutch voyages of the 17th century, notably Abel Tasman's (1603 - 1659) voyage in 1642, and shows the tracks of Captains Marshall, Byron, Wallis, Bougainville. The map is dominated by the tracks of Cook, however, underscoring the achievements of that explorer. The tracks of all three of Cook's great voyages appear here: his 1768-1771 observation of the Transit of Venus at Tahiti; his 1772-5 search for the legendary great southern continent, (during which he crossed the Antarctic Circle three times) and his fatal third expedition to seek the Northwest Passage, during which he met his end in Hawaii. New Zealand is shown as two islands with with its shores charted as per Cook's first voyage. Maori placenames are used, represented with phonetic spellings. Australia is shown complete (albeit with a 'coast never traveled' noted in German.) (more details)