Antique Map of the Madura Strait by Tardieu (c.1825)

Description: Antique map titled 'Plan du Détroit de Madura'. Detailed map of the Madura Strait. The eastern part of the island Java with the city of Gresik and the western part of Pulau Madura with the city Bangkalam. In the lower part of the map a view of the strait of Madura between Java and the Fort d'Orange. This map originates from 'Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la frégate "la Thétis" et de la corvette "l'Espérance"'.

Artists and Engravers: Ambroise Tardieu ( 1788 - 1841 in Paris) was an eminent French cartographer and engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of the United States. Tardieu's son, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), was also an artist and a famous forensic medical scholar, who supplied the illustrations for Dr. Pierre François Olive Rayer's three-volume Traité des maladies des reins (1839-41), a treatise on diseases of the kidneys.