Sardenia

Item — Oversize_Folder: 8

Identifier: id189918

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

(Wright Italy Map No. 7)

[Untitled]

A portion of the Souhern European Kingdom of Sardinia on the Italian mainland. Relief shown pictorially.

Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio - geographer

Dufrenoy, Paris - engraver

photographic reproduction

40 cm x 66 cm

1 : 144,000 (reduction to 1 : 300,000)

Manuscript annotation on verso by John Womack Wright: "Map of Sardenia. Made originally in 1683 and corrected in 1772. This map was used by [Louis Alexandre] Berthier during the entire campaign [of 1796]."

Dates

Creation: circa 1675-1918

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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