Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22053

    Map of Quebec City

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 350mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Plan of Quebec City shown with the St Charles River to the right of the image. The Saint-Louis Fort can be seen towards the lower centre of the plan, with the city walls and fortifications seen further left, extending along the perimeter of the city.

    Plate 9 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.9.’ With a key below: ‘PLAN / DE LA VILLE DE / QUEBEC’. Map scale noted as: ‘Echelle de 200 toises’ [Scale of 200 fathoms].

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