Description
faded original outline hand-colour copper engraving.
Map from ‘Atlas Nouveau Portatif’; pl. 83; A military engineer by profession, le Rouge took up cartography and produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans, sea charts and atlases between the years 1740 and 1780.

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