Karte von den saemtlichen Oesterreichischens Niederlanden, nebst dem Ausfluss der Schelde und den anliegenden hollandischen Provinzen nach den Karten des [...] Grafen von Ferraris, A.F.W. Crome, J.B. de Bouge [...].

Vienna, Artaria und Comp., [late 18th-early 19th c.]

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Engr., on 4 sheets, together c. 100 x 127,5 cm (few sm., light brown stains).

Mounted on cloth. In marbled paper box.

Rare map of the Austrian Netherlands by the Austrian cartographer Anton von Wenzely (1747-1825). Based on the maps of Ferraris and de Bouge, Wenzely reduced the "Carte marchande" 3 times to encompass a territory slightly larger than its model.
Ref. Tooley's Dictionary IV:372. - Cp. Lemoine-Isabeau, Cl. - Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas méridionaux, pp. 32 & 216 (cites a similar map "Neueste Generalkarte [...]", published by Schraembl in 1790).