| Item Description: | Frontispiece detached from: Suite du Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines, levées et gravées par ordre exprés du Roy de Portugal sous qui on a fait la découverte de l'Afrique etc. Prepared for King Pedro II of Portugal who was at that time supporting France and Spain in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714).
Image of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four rearing hippocampi, with his tritons he is about to charge at a naval battle in the background, just off the shore of a maritime fortified harbor. Above them from a parting in the clouds, a winged soldier and an angel with a trumpet and banner carry the title. The frame around the picture includes the crest of France, Neptune's mermen, the Sun symbol of the French king. |
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