Plan of Cap-Haïtien
Date
1764
Creator
Jean-Baptiste Croisey (1740 - 1810, French) , Engraver
After
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 355mm
width (print): 355mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plan of Cap-Français, the capital of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue on the northwest coast of Hispaniola, now known as Cap-Haïtien. The colony is surrounded by a fortified wall, with a large church seen in the centre of the settlement.
Plate 65 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.65.’ With a cartouche top right: ‘VILLE DU CAP / dans l’Isle de St Domingue.’ There is also a key to the main buildings and a scale: ‘Echelle de Deux Cente Toises.’ Inscribed below: ‘Croisey. C.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 65 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.65.’ With a cartouche top right: ‘VILLE DU CAP / dans l’Isle de St Domingue.’ There is also a key to the main buildings and a scale: ‘Echelle de Deux Cente Toises.’ Inscribed below: ‘Croisey. C.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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