Partie du Cercle D’Austriche, Scavoir L’Archiduche d’Austriche, Divise en Haut, ou au dessus de L’Ens, et Bas, ou au dessous de L’Ens,

Title

Partie du Cercle D’Austriche, Scavoir L’Archiduche d’Austriche, Divise en Haut, ou au dessus de L’Ens, et Bas, ou au dessous de L’Ens,

Magnificent large map of Upper Austria and Lower Austria. It shows the area along the Danube from Braunau and Passau, via Linz, Enns, Grein, Ypps, Vienna, to Bratislava. The map is based on the cartography of Sanson. The title cartouche shows the double-headed eagle with putti proclaiming victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna, represented by two chained Turkish prisoners at the bottom.

c. 1692

Artist

Jaillot/ Sanson (1632-1712)

Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632–1712) was a prominent French cartographer and publisher. In 1665, he married into the Berey family of map publishers. After the death of his brother-in-law Nicolas II Berey in 1667, Jaillot bought the Berey map collection from his sister-in-law, acquiring a valuable stock without having ever created a map himself. Jaillot entered the map business at a favorable time—after Louis XIV’s early victories in the Reunions Wars in 1668, France’s territory expanded rapidly, creating high demand for maps showing French triumphs, new borders, and expansion plans. His collection included plates originally made by Pierre Duval, who resisted Jaillot’s reissues. At the height of this conflict, Jaillot gained the support of Guillaume and Adrien Sanson, sons of Nicolas Sanson, as mapmakers and partners, enabling him to publish new maps under the prestigious Sanson name. His first atlas, Atlas Nouveau (1681), was a commercial success, leading to widespread piracy by other publishers.

Historical Description

The name Austria is first handed down in its Old High German form Ostarrichi from the year 996. The Latin form Austria was also used. In 1156 Austria became an independent duchy in the Holy Roman Empire. After the Babenbergs died out in 1246, the House of Habsburg prevailed in the struggle for rule in Austria. The area designated as Austria later included the entire Habsburg Monarchy and later the Austrian Empire, which was constituted in 1804, and the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy established in 1867. The present republic came into being in 1918.