MAP OF THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

Inventory number 587

Original title: Partie Septentrionale Du Cercle D'Autriche, qui compend l'Archiduche d'Autriche, divise en ses huit quartiers; et la haute partie de Duche de Stirie

Publishing year: 1752

Place of publishing and publisher: Paris

Format: 62 x 48 cm

Technique: Copper engraving

The map shows in great detail and with a dense network data the countries of northern Austria as divided by Charles V, including the area from Radstadt to Bratislava. The cartographic content is very rich, from topographic (vegetation and orography made in profile) to political information. It refers to a part of the Habsburg hereditary lands (Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, part of Carinthia) before the Napoleonic Wars, with the seat of the House of Habsburg or the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. The title of the map is in the lower right corner in a richly decorated Baroque cartouche, with heraldic insignia and a reminder of the recent war on the eastern borders (military weapons and flags). Below the upper edge there are multiple graphic scales. This map was published in 1757 by Atlas Universal, which included maps made on the basis of field work, so this map is very accurate in relation to its contemporary ones, although with some inaccurate or omitted historical terms. There are no Croatian countries on the map.

DE VAUGONDY, DIDIER ROBERT

DE VAUGONDY, DIDIER ROBERT (1723-1786), a French censor and the royal geographer from 1760. He worked in Paris at the address Quai de L’Horloge du Palais près le Pont Neuf. His most notable works are Les Cartes dans le Atlas Universel from 1750-1757 and Nouvel Atlas portratif from 1784. His atlases were republished by Delamarche. His father GILLES ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (1686-1766) was also a royal geographer (Géographe Ordinaire du Roi) from 1730 and Nicolas Sanson's grandson. He succeeded Pierre Moulard Sanson with a workshop at the address Quai de L’Horloge du Palais proche la rue de Harlai. His most notable works are Sanson's Guerre Rhein from 1735, Atlas Portatif from 1748, Petit Atlas from 1748, Atlas Universel (published with the help of his son) 1757 and Amérique from 1767.