EISEN. Charles. - Lot 831

EISEN. Charles. (Chorographic map of the Austrian Netherlands) Presented on December 10, 1777 to His Majesty Joseph II (Circa 1777). Sight: 64 x 94.5 cm. Later frame in wood and gilded stucco. Stains. Rousseurs. Frame Worn and missing. Beautiful engraving depicting the presentation of the map of the Austrian Netherlands by the Count of Ferraris to Joseph II Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire draped by the crowned imperial eagle. The scene is surrounded by a crown of small amours or putti with attributes of the various arts of medicine, cartography, mathematics, astronomy... Plate numbered "XVI" at top left, taken from Carte chorographique des Pays-Bas by Count de Ferraris.