502
176037
Jacob Gillberg
(Sweden, 1724-1793)
Estimate
5 000 - 5 500 SEK
447 - 492 EUR
458 - 504 USD
Hammer price
6 500 SEK
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Jacob Gillberg
(Sweden, 1724-1793)
"Plan över flottan vid Viborgs redd 1790"
Engraved map with hand coloring 40 x 58 cm. After an original by Gustav af Klint. Contemporary bronzed frame with original glass.
Discolored, time staining.
Literature
Emil Hultmark, "Svenska kopparsnickare och etsare 1500-1944", 1944, page 118.
More information
Gustaf af Klint (1771-1840) was a Swedish military (vice admiral 1837) and cartograph. During his life he devoted his time prepare the grand masterpiece "Sveriges sjöatlas" translated to Sweden's atlas of the sea. A collection of maps over the countries own fairways, that had been visited by Swedish navigates from Kattegatt to the north of the Black Sea.