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Last Name Tardieu

Given Name Pierre Antoine François

alt. Names P. A. F. T. ; called / detto "Tardieux de l'Estrapade" ;

Marriage

Children copper engraver ->Pierre Antoine Tardieu (1784-1869) = "Tardieu fils" & Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841)

Year born 1757 in Paris

Year died 1822

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation graveur français Nicolas-Henri Tardieu (1674-1749) (grandfather) ; copper engraver Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu (1716-1791) (father)

Relatives brother Pierre Alexandre T.; see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardieu and various entries "Tardieu" here in DSI

Education

Country of Activity France

Worked for Alexander von Humboldt: Atlas géographique & physique des régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent (Paris 1814-38) ; Louis Freycinet: Atlas de la Voyage du découverte de Péron aux Terres Australes (Paris 1811); Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce, 1782; Atlas universel de géographie physique et politique, ancienne et moderne (Paris 1807 w. 8 maps); Atlas national de la France, 1808 ; Atlas de commerce, 1822; Histoire des guerres Français en Italie ;

Patronage

Collaborators naturalist ->A. v. Humboldt ; draughtsman ->Poirson in Paris ; lettering by L. Aubert père ; publisher F. Schoell, Paris ;

Techniques geological, geographical, and topographical copperplate engraving ; cartographic map-making ;

Sample(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Fran%C3%A7ois_Tardieu ;

Archival sources www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22tardieu%2C+p.a.f.%22&qt=results_page ;

Published sources Lubrich 2014: 156, 170, 174-5 & 756-7 ; Baudin's Voyagers 2016: 4-5 ;

other Active in Paris with engraving office in Place de l'Estrapade no. 1 ; his son later continued work in the same place at no. 34 ;

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