Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22113

    Map of Cuba

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 215mm
    width (print): 315mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map showing the island of Cuba and its surrounding islets. The city of Havana and the distinctive shape of its harbour can be seen towards the northwest of the island. A number of churches are also marked on the map and can be seen across the island of Cuba.

    Plate 50 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.50.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘ISLE DE CUBE / Echelle de 25 Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > Cuba
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