Ethnography and armchair visual artistry: Charles Nicolas Cochin’s illustrations of the <i>Histoire générale des voyages</i>
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Abstract
From 1746 to 1759, the abbé Prévost produced the Histoire générale des voyages, a collection of voyages and travels, partially translated from the English collection A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Mostly known as the author of the novel Manon Lescaut (1731), Prévost was also recognised for his penmanship, his taste for travel adventures and for his scholarly translations of historical books. This article focuses on the involvement of French artist Charles-Nicolas Cochin in undertaking several images for the French collection. Cochin recycled the existing images from the English edition but also drew new illustrations for previously unillustrated portions of the text, renewing the text–image relationships at work. The comparison of both texts reveals cultural differences pertaining to the visual aesthetics of travel illustrations which, in turn, formed the basis for different representations of the faraway.
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