Les Costes du Boulenois et de la Picardie.

Title

Les Costes du Boulenois et de la Picardie.

Description

Map depicts the coast of Bologne-sur-mer with dea city map, decorative offshore ships and a big windrose. From the atlas: Kaart van de Franse kust bij Boulogne en Picardië, 1709. Printed from Harrewijn, Jacobus.

dated 1709

Artist

Fricx (1680-1730)

Henry Fricx was an engraver, printer, and map publisher from Brussels in the early 18th century. He came from a well-known family of printers and took over the workshop of his father, Eugène Fricx. Around 1709, he worked as an official printer and cartographer for the Spanish Netherlands. Henry Fricx is best known for his maps and city plans, which are considered among the most important cartographic works of that time in the southern Netherlands. His work was characterized by accuracy and artistic design.

Historical Description

Pas-de-Calais is one of the 83 departments created in 1790 during the French Revolution in application of the law of December 1789. It was created by merging Artois and parts of Picardy, the Boulonnais and part of the Ponthieu.