Havana Harbor Cuba by Peter Canot, 1764 | Rare Original Hand-Colored | Custom Framed maps in New York

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Set of 2 original chromolithographs from L'Ornement Polychrome (1873) by renowned French artist and historian Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet

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The legend of the Eastern Hemisphere map reads: "While simulating the illuminated mariners' charts of the Sixteenth Century

Havana Harbor Cuba by Peter Canot, 1764 | Rare Original Hand-Colored | Custom Framed maps in New YorkAn exceptional and rare original hand colored copper engraving depicting the entrance to Havana Harbor, engraved by renowned British engraver Peter Canot and published in 1764. Titled A View of the Entrance of the Harbour of the HAVANA, taken from within the Wrecks, this finely executed 18th century print captures one of the Caribbean's most important colonial ports during the height of the British occupation of Havana following the Seven Years' War.