Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22064

    Map of the Saint Pierre Island Harbour

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jean-Baptiste Croisey (1740 - 1810, French) , Engraver
    After
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 230mm
    width (print): 350mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the islets and harbours around Placentia, on the Avalon peninsula of the island of Newfoundland. A number of locations are marked on the map including Point Verde, Marquise and the main residential area of the town of Placentia, seen just south of the fort.

    Plate 20 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).

    Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.20.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTES DES / BAYES, RADES, ET PORT / DE PLAISANCE / dans L’Isle de Terre-Neuve. / Echelle de Mille Toises.’ Inscribed below the framing border: ‘croisey. sculp.’

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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