Printed below the title in French, "By Sr. Janvier, geographer of Paris, engraved by Lattre, S. Jacques Street in the city of Bordeaux 1762 with privilege of the king." National borders are hand colored and relief is shown pictorially....
"Venus is represented rising out of the water in accord with the conventions of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type. The triton and dolphin, which recall the maritime setting, were sometimes depicted alternately with two cupids accompanying the...
