Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22107

    Map of New Orleans

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 215mm
    width (print): 295mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Plan of the original settlement of New Orleans, with principal buildings listed in a key just below the title. The plan shows the original grid layout of the settlement, with a plan of four blocks by eleven blocks. The Mississippi river can be seen at the lower edge of the map.

    Plate 45 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.45.’ With a title and a key to significant buildings at the top: ‘PLAN DE LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS’.

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