Subject: Portugal & Brazil
Period: 1730 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
22.6 x 19.5 inches
57.4 x 49.5 cm
This superb map links Portugal with her colony in South America in a beautiful composition. The map is filled with impressive detail of Portugal with mountains, forests, rivers, roads, cities, fortifications, and villages all carefully located. However, it is the addition of a large inset of Brazil showing the Capitanias that makes the map outstanding. The exquisite title cartouche fills the remaining area above the inset with Neptune, a queen, cherubs, coats of arms and the Portuguese fleet.
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Condition: A
A nice impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a short centerfold separation in the bottom margin and minor soiling along the edges of the sheet.