anti-Napoleonic serio-comic map of Europe, with west oriented to the top, depicting the continent as a queen, but in homely attire, the Iberian peninsula her head, the British Isles her scarf, Corsica and Sardinia forming her right hand stirring with a utensil in the crucible of Sicily held in her left hand and arm of Italy, the rest of Europe formed by her flowing dress, from Arend Fokke's satirical work, Boertige reis door Europa, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 245 x 175mm., Haarlem, [1794-1807].
anti-Napoleonic serio-comic map of Europe, with west oriented to the top, depicting the continent as a queen, but in homely attire, the Iberian peninsula her head, the British Isles her scarf, Corsica and Sardinia forming her right hand stirring with a utensil in the crucible of Sicily held in her left hand and arm of Italy, the rest of Europe formed by her flowing dress, from Arend Fokke's satirical work, Boertige reis door Europa, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 245 x 175mm., Haarlem, [1794-1807].
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