1858 Van de Velde maps of Palestine and Jerusalem

none 1858 Van de Velde maps of Palestine and Jerusalem 1858 Map of the Holy Land by C.W.M. Van de Velde... from his own surveys in 1851 & 1852, from those made in 1841 by Majors Robe and Rochfort Scott, Lieut. Symonds... and from the Results of the Researches made by Lynch, Robinson, Wi.jpg Composite map of Palestine 1851–52 Charles William Meredith van de Velde The Van de Velde maps of Palestine and Jerusalem were an important scientific mapping of the region of Palestine and mapping of Jerusalem, published in 1858 by Dutch cartographer Charles William Meredith van de Velde. Development The surveys were carried out by Van de Velde during his 1851 visit to Palestine, where he carried out various surveys, drawings, paintings and around one hundred watercolours for postcards. When he returned from his trip to Palestine, he was able to obtain the 1840 Royal Engineers’ survey data, and used this in the production of this maps.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 66 Given the known flaws in the work, Van de Velde used the Royal Engineers’ raw data to construct his map, cross-comparing the data with his work as well as all known previous geographical and cartographical knowledge.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 102-103 Van de Velde met Titus Tobler in Switzerland in 1855, where they agreed to make a new map of Jerusalem based on combining Tobler's own measurements with the flawed Royal Engineers map of 1840–41. Tobler published a 26-page memoir to accompany the map.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 69 After his trip, he held lectures on Palestine in Geneva and Lausanne. Publication and reception Together with the maps, Van de Velde published an album of 100 lithographs of the region.Charles William Meredith van de Velde, Le pays d’Israël. Collection de cent vues prises d’après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine (Paris, 1857). The map was published in 1858 ahead of his later Map of the Holy Land. Van de Velde carried out the work alone with a 7-inch surveyor’s compass, without theodolites (which required multiple people to operate) and without making astronomical observations (which required significant time). Despite this, his map was considered the most accurate made at the time.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 61 Yehoshua Ben-Arieh stated that: “Ritter’s writing and Van de Velde’s map together may be considered the crowning achievements of fifty years exploration and research in the geography of Palestine.”Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, The Rediscovery of the Holy Land in the 19th Century (Jerusalem, 1979, p.147 Faehndrich wrote that: “Van de Velde’s map represented the complete body of Western geographical knowledge on Palestine, critically compiled, then verified on site and completed by his own measurements and his own (physical) experience, including the hardships needed to make a scientific map”.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 102-103 4,409 copies of the regional maps and 612 copies of the Jerusalem map were sold between 1858 and 1877.Goren Faehndrich Schelhaas 2017 94–95 Gallery Views Composite Maps Regional Maps AB 80px 80px 1 80px 80px 2 80px 80px 3 80px 80px 4Each sheet is a separate clickable image. Bibliography Primary sources Planography of Jerusalem: memoir to accompany the new ground-plan of the city of Jerusalem and the environs, constructed anew by C.W.M. Vande Velde Tobler Titus Titus Tobler 1858 Justus Perthes https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10827265_000 Van de Velde Carel Willem Meredith Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Holy Land https://archive.org/details/memoirtoaccompa00veldgoog/page/n6 1858 Justus Perthes Secondary sources Moscrop John James Measuring Jerusalem: The Palestine Exploration Fund and British Interests in the Holy Land https://books.google.com/books?id=KzN2_eaDhz4C 1 January 2000 A&C Black 978-0-7185-0220-1 Gibson Shimon Katharina Galor and Gideon Avni Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City https://www.academia.edu/23736599 2011 Pennsylvania State University Press 978-1-57506-223-5 British Archaeological Work in Jerusalem between 1865–1967: An Assessment Schelhaas Bruno Faehndrich Jutta Goren Haim Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine https://books.google.com/books?id=XhKMDwAAQBAJ 28 February 2017 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-0-85772-785-5 Levy-Rubin Milka Rubin Rehav Nitza Rosovsky City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present https://books.google.com/books?id=itgUngEACAAJ 1996 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-36708-1 The Image of the Holy City: Maps and Mapping of Jerusalem References Category:Old maps of Jerusalem Category:19th-century maps and globes Category:Maps of Palestine (region)