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
width (print): 350mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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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