Price: £400.00

• Date: c. 1708
• Condition: AA
• Colour: uncoloured
• Size (cm): 29.8 x 45.2

Title: Plan de la Ville Ports Baye et Rades de Toulon.
Technique: Copperplate engraving

Publication: 'se vend a Marseille chez I Guenard'

Toulon is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. The engraving is probably a separately printed broadsheet of the 'Battle of Toulon' in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Anglo-Dutch forces failed to take Toulon and the campaign's only fruit was that, in order to prevent their ships falling into the enemy's hands, the French had sunk their whole squadron of more than 50 sail in the harbour, and thereby put it quite out of their power to contest the English control of the Mediterranean.

At some point the sheet had been folded and some damge had occured to the lower centrefold. This has now been expertly repaired.