Map of the Mouth of the Mississippi River
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 170mm
width (print): 170mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the mouth of the Mississippi River, at the southern tip of the state of Louisiana. The map shows the point at which the river divides and flows out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Plate 44 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.44.’ With a cartouche lower right ‘EMBOUCHURES / DU FLEUVE ST. LOUIS / ou / MISSISSIPI / Echelle de Huit Cent Toises.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 44 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.44.’ With a cartouche lower right ‘EMBOUCHURES / DU FLEUVE ST. LOUIS / ou / MISSISSIPI / Echelle de Huit Cent Toises.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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