Plan of Port-au-Prince
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, 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 settlement of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, shown here as a French fortification whilst the west half of Hispaniola was occupied by France as the colony of Saint-Domingue.
Plate 69 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.69.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘LE PORT AU PRINCE / dans / l’Isle de St Domingue / Echelle de Neuf Cent Toises’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 69 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.69.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘LE PORT AU PRINCE / dans / l’Isle de St Domingue / Echelle de Neuf Cent Toises’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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