Charte von Persien

Original antique map of Persia, engraved by Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann and published in Weimar in 1811. The map depicts the territory of Persia, corresponding to present-day Iran and its surrounding regions. It covers the principal cities, routes and geographical features of the area. The map was published in the context of European explorations and geographical studies of western Asia in the early 19th century, when the European powers sought to chart with greater precision the territories linking Europe with Asia. Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann was a German geographer and publisher active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his atlases and geographical works that disseminated territorial knowledge of various regions of the world. The map is executed as a copperplate engraving.