SDUK Map of Lisbon Author(s)_Dr Samuel Johnson

SDUK Map of Lisbon Author(s)_Dr Samuel JohnsonThis map of Lisbon was engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. At its foot is a view of Lisbon, from the Quinta da Torrinha Val de Pereiro, and in the upper right hand corner is an inset map of the city environs. Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 34 x 40 cm, with original hand colour including the city walls outlined in red, , numbered in an old hand, blank

trimmed to image

1950 (1800 to 1815) pp

was governed by the Spanish between 1509 and 1708

painted in oils

which opened in March 1906

ruined by their greed

folio edition would be unnecessary

richly adorned with seals

22 x 27 cm

near Cuneo in Piedmont

but as Madan notes he was a member of the ‘new scientific school’ which is most closely associated with Robert Boyle

additional allegorical title-page engraved by Frans van Bleyswyk