From the exhibition
Carte d'une partie de la Cote de Cochinchine
Après de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d', · 1775, after Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette

This is a copper-plate engraved nautical chart of the central Vietnamese coastline — the Bay of Tourane (Da Nang), the Cham-Collao islands, and the Rivière du Roi — drawn from French hydrographic surveys and published in Mannevillette's *Neptune Oriental*. Rhumb-line grids radiate from compass roses; coastal profiles at the bottom orient mariners approaching the bay. The stamp 'Museum Bodleianum' places it in the Bodleian collection. As a cartographic engraving it belongs to the same intaglio print culture that produced Hogarth and Gillray — the same London and Paris workshops, the same skilled plate-cutters — but its purpose is navigation rather than satirical commentary.
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