{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50130,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"43","artist":"Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772)","title":"Carte Réduite des Isles Philippines Pour Servir Aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressée au Dépost des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine","starting_price":2000000,"signed_dated":"1752","medium":"Copper engraving with hand-coloring","size":"36\" x 23\" (91 cm x 58 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Dean Leovino Ma. Garcia Collection","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This large and finely-engraved map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, the official Hydrographer to the Royal French Navy, is one of the earliest obtainable large format maps coveted by collectors of Philippine maps.
“The elegant composition features the entire Philippine Archipelago, with the seas traversed by numerous rhumb lines, and a large title cartouche of a transitional rococo-neoclassical style. Based on the very finest sources, it is highly-detailed, labeling all major settlements, as well as details in the interior such as rivers and lakes.
“Bellin relied on the work of Padre Pedro Murillo Velarde (1696-1753), a Jesuit scholar, who worked for many years... to create the first broadly accurate map,...the Carta hydrographica y chronographica de las Islas Filipinas, printed in Manila in 1734.”
Bellin notes on the map that his work is not a “servile copy” of Murillo Velarde’s 1744 map of the Philippines. Bellin’s Carte Reduite is considered to be one of the fundamental elements of any collection of Philippine maps.
The map is presented in a Conservation frame, with UV filtering Museum Glass and acid-free mat board.","lot_group":"MAPS","lot_details_html":"
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) Carte Réduite des Isles Philippines Pour Servir Aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressée au Dépost des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine 1752 Copper engraving with hand-coloring 36\" x 23\" (91 cm x 58 cm)