Spain, Portugal and Morocco: Coasts of Andalucía, Algarve and Northern Morocco, c. 1759

Spain, Portugal and Morocco: Coasts of Andalucía, Algarve and Northern Morocco, c. 1759 Thomas López y Chaves after Francisco Ortiz

Hand drawn and coloured on laid paper

SAFE/MT4 910/1770/1 & 2

Acquired from Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps in 2014

This manuscript chart shows the coastline of Andalucia from the British fortress of Gibraltar westwards, and extending to the Portuguese Algarve coastline as far as Cape St. Vincent. The chart features the powerful city of Cadiz, central to naval and trading operations to the Americas and the Pacific in the eighteenth century.