Spain-senex-1763
$850.00
Title
A Correct Map of Spain and Portugal According to the newest observations and discoveries comunicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris.
1763 (undated)
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Description
This beautiful, large engraving is John Senex’s 1708 map of Spain and Portugal, covering the entire Iberian Peninsula, including the south of France, part of the north coast of Africa, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Majorca, and Minorca. It is attractively engraved, with decorative sailing ships and a baroque-inspired cartouche featuring a half-dozen
putti wearing the classical iconography of the Greco-Roman gods (with a martial Mars front-and-center, and a commercial Mercury at top.)