Tardieu, Ambroise

Ambroise Tardieu brought an engraver's precision to the departments of France and the geography of the ancient world. Tardie...

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Ambroise Tardieu brought an engraver's precision to the departments of France and the geography of the ancient world. Tardieu (1788–1841), a French cartographer and engraver, worked on maps, atlases and portraits, and the maps here concentrate on early nineteenth-century France, with separate sheets for departments such as Isère, Yonne, Morbihan and the Nord, and further maps of Guadeloupe and Senegal. Plans of Delphi and the Academy at Athens and maps of ancient Greece and the Greek colonies of North Africa show another side of his atlas work, placing the sites discussed by historical writers in their landscapes.

Ambroise Tardieu brought an engraver's precision to the departments of France and the geography of the ancient world. Tardieu (1788–1841), a French cartographer and engraver, worked on maps, atlases and portraits, and the maps here concentrate on early nineteenth-century France, with separate sheets for departments such as Isère, Yonne, Morbihan and the Nord, and further maps of Guadeloupe and Senegal. Plans of Delphi and the Academy at Athens and maps of ancient Greece and the Greek colonies of North Africa show another side of his atlas work, placing the sites discussed by historical writers in their landscapes.

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