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RICQUIER, P. Partie du Gange ou sont les Etablissements du Commerce des nations de l'Europe dans les Indes Orientales. Cette carte est dressée sur les memoires et observations du Sr. Jacque André Gobbé envoie aux Indes Orientales par Mes.rs de la Compagnie etablie a Anvers...P. Ricquier dans la groendael Straet a Anvers. [Antwerp: circa 1726].
Manuscript plan of the Lower Ganges, ink and wash on paper, 540 x 740mm. The showing in detail the topography of both banks of the river, and its principal tributaries in these lower reaches, areas of cultivation indicated by stylised fields with boundaries of trees, as well as groves of date palms and other groupings of trees, the principal settlements and towns marked by town symbols, including the major factories and forts for the French, English, Flemish, Dutch and Danish. Title set in a decorative scroll along upper margin, small scrolled explanation inset, scale bar and further explantion inset at lower margin surrounded by a delicate pen, ink and wash scene of the Ganges, compass rose. (Several small clean tears affecting margins, one into the map area, light soiling to margins.)
A fine early manuscript map of the Lower Ganges, drawn by Ricquier for the Flemish East India company, who had a trading post at Hitsiapour, downstream from Hugli (Calcutta). The map is particularly interesting in that it shows the situation of the competing European companies at an early point in the history of European commercial interest in the region, and before the English got the upper hand against the French. Interestingly the fort and area around Coullicassa is marked as under English control, yet at this time the English had their headquarters for Indian trade at Calcutta, a detail not borne out by this map.
Manuscript plan of the Lower Ganges, ink and wash on paper, 540 x 740mm. The showing in detail the topography of both banks of the river, and its principal tributaries in these lower reaches, areas of cultivation indicated by stylised fields with boundaries of trees, as well as groves of date palms and other groupings of trees, the principal settlements and towns marked by town symbols, including the major factories and forts for the French, English, Flemish, Dutch and Danish. Title set in a decorative scroll along upper margin, small scrolled explanation inset, scale bar and further explantion inset at lower margin surrounded by a delicate pen, ink and wash scene of the Ganges, compass rose. (Several small clean tears affecting margins, one into the map area, light soiling to margins.)
A fine early manuscript map of the Lower Ganges, drawn by Ricquier for the Flemish East India company, who had a trading post at Hitsiapour, downstream from Hugli (Calcutta). The map is particularly interesting in that it shows the situation of the competing European companies at an early point in the history of European commercial interest in the region, and before the English got the upper hand against the French. Interestingly the fort and area around Coullicassa is marked as under English control, yet at this time the English had their headquarters for Indian trade at Calcutta, a detail not borne out by this map.