Chiquet’s Map of Portugal
SKU: 9080
£175.00
Title:
Chiquet’s Map of Portugal
Date of publication:
1719
Printed Measurement:
16.5 x 22.5 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Les Royaumes de Portugal et d’Algarve
Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’.
Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here.