LE ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS: MAP OF THE DUCHY OF CARNIOLA
Inventory number 78
Author: LE ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS
Original title: Le Duche de Carniole suivant les Nouvelle Observations a Paris Par et chez le Seigneur le Rouge Ingineur Geographe du Roy
Publishing year: 1742
Place of publishing and publisher: Paris
Format: 48,5 x 55,5 cm
Technique: Copper engraving
This map was derived from Matthäus Seutter's map of Kranjska (ref. catalogue No. 119) and Johan Baptist Homann's map (ref. catalogue No. 37). Compared to the models differs only by its graphical design. In the lower right corner is included the map image of the lake of Cernik. The title is in the lower left corner in a rococo cartouche. A mileage scale is expressed both in German and in Italian miles.
LE ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS
GEORGE LOUIS LA ROUGE - a French cartographer and designated cartographer of king of France. In the period between 1740 and 1780 he edited a series of atlases.
