Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 275

FR. S.C. DE SPRETY (FL. 1791)

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 4,000

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FR. S.C. DE SPRETY (FL. 1791)
Carte Générale de la Principauté et Souvreigne des Isle de Malte et du Goze
Manuscript map, in pen and ink and watercolour on paper, two sheets
24¼ x 55½ in. (62.2 x 141 cm.)

Specialist note

The present lot is a manuscript map of the Islands of Malta and Gozo, copied and corrected by Fr. S.C. de Sprety in 1791 after a version originally executed in 1752, whilst the Islands were under the command of the Grand Master of the Knight of Malta Emanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725-1797).