Ambroise Tardieu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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eminent French cartographer and engraver
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Ambroise Tardieu
- Ambroise Tardieu (2 March 1788 in Paris – 17 January 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.
- Neither should be confused with Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu, an unrelated French cartographer and engraver active in the early 19th century.Tardieu came from a family boasting a number of fine engravers, and was trained from an early age by his uncle, Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756–1844), a leading French engraver.
- Showing considerable talent in this field, Ambroise persevered and became a celebrated engraver of portraits.
- In addition he was appointed as geographical engraver for the French government, for which he received a small stipend.
- In order to eke out this meagre wage, he began to trade in prints, books and maps.
- He is remembered for more than 800 portraits engraved through his career, many depicting scientists of the period.Tardieu published a number of atlases, one of which appeared in 1842 and was titled Atlas universel de geographie, ancienne et moderne/dresse par Ambroise Tardieu pour l'intelligence de la Geographie universelle par Malte-Brun.
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