A correct map of the North East part of Germany. Containing the Electorates of Saxony u Brandenburg, and the Duchies of Silesia, Mecklenburg,Pomerania

Title

A correct map of the North East part of Germany. Containing the Electorates of Saxony u Brandenburg, and the Duchies of Silesia, Mecklenburg,Pomerania

Description

Map shows the north-eastern part of Germany, today partly Poland, with the electorates of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as the duchies of Silesia, Mecklenburg and Pomerania. There is also a splendid title cartouche with a depiction of a coat of arms.

ca. 1760

Artist

Bowen (1720-1767)

Emanuel Bowen (1714- 1767 in London) was an English map engraver, who worked for George II of England and Louis XV of France as a geographer. In spite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.

Historical Description

Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and Lithuania to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and Czech Republic, to the south, and Germany to the west. The establishment of the Polish state can be traced back to AD 966, when Mieszko I ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented its longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest at the end of the 18th century. Poland regained its independence in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. It was one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe, with a uniquely liberal political system, which adopted Europe's first written national constitution, the Constitution of 3 May 1791.