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拍品专文
This very rare map of Tehran, is dated December 1858/January 1859 and shows the city as it was before Nasir al-Din Shah remodelled it during the following decade, between 1869 and 1874. When the map was drawn, Tehran was approximately 4 square kilometres at that time, of which Imperial buildings and gardens covered approximately each 280,000 square meters, and had an estimated population of 100,000. Its author, the artillery officer August Krziz, was invited from Austria to teach at the Polytechnic college, the Dar al-Funun founded in 1851, and the Military College of Tehran. Together with the drawing of this map, August Krziz is known to have built the first telegraph line in Iran.
August Krziz's pioneering map is accompanied by a short text above which gives precise geographic details on Tehran - its exact location, duration of the longest and shortest days, altitude in 'French meters', average temperature, acceleration of gravity, etc. The complex structures of the town made mapping extremely difficult. The supervision of the Qajar prince 'Ali Quli Mirza I'tizad al-Saltana and Krziz's two Persian students from the Dar al-Funun, Zulfiqar Beg and Muhammad Taqi Khan Shakir, helped him to access places which without them would have been forbidden to a European.
August Krziz's pioneering map is accompanied by a short text above which gives precise geographic details on Tehran - its exact location, duration of the longest and shortest days, altitude in 'French meters', average temperature, acceleration of gravity, etc. The complex structures of the town made mapping extremely difficult. The supervision of the Qajar prince 'Ali Quli Mirza I'tizad al-Saltana and Krziz's two Persian students from the Dar al-Funun, Zulfiqar Beg and Muhammad Taqi Khan Shakir, helped him to access places which without them would have been forbidden to a European.