Allegorical astronomical performance, approx. 1702; La Sphere Royal; Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique, Ou Description des Principales Villes Avec Leurs Fortifications. Dessignées PAR LES MEILLEURS Engineers, private party Celles Qui Sont Sous La Domination de la France (...) Et Ornées the plusieurs Superbes Edifes. Allegorical astronomical performance with centrally an armillarium (sky globe with degrees and the signs of the zodiac), at the top of a woman with a telescope. Plate No. 1 In the picture in the context of a total of 276 numbered plates of renowned strong cities and
Allegorical astronomical performance, approx. 1702; La Sphere Royal; Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique, Ou Description des Principales Villes Avec Leurs Fortifications. Dessignées PAR LES MEILLEURS Engineers, private party Celles Qui Sont Sous La Domination de la France (...) Et Ornées the plusieurs Superbes Edifes. Allegorical astronomical performance with centrally an armillarium (sky globe with degrees and the signs of the zodiac), at the top of a woman with a telescope. Plate No. 1 In the picture in the context of a total of 276 numbered plates of renowned strong cities and fortresses in the context of the Spanish Succession War. For most part, these plates have been copied to the anonymous French plates: in Les Forces de l'Europe and in: Le Theater de la Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the framework of the nine-year war. Titles in French.
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