Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on verso

Latin text on verso

the artist may have been on the staff

Conditions & Materials

black and white (key information highlighted in pink wash)

more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleon’s French Empire

Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on versoMappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn. Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas edita per Guillelmum de lIsle Lotters world map, after Guillaume de lIsle, reflects the typical extent of mid eighteenth century European knowledge, with various incomplete and conjectural coastlines, notably the west coast of north America and the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, the latter linked