Inhabitants of Fort Dauphin, 1726
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Man and woman from Faradofay (Fort Dauphin) on Madagascar, dressed in local costume. In the background the city. Plate no. 477 in part XIX of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortifications in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from the anonymous French plates of famous strong cities and fortifications: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War.
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