Map of the bays of Cavaillon, Flammants and Messle
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 330mm
width (print): 330mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of three bays on the south coast of Haiti, labelled here as the ‘Baye de Cavaillon’, the ‘Bay des Flamands’ and the ‘Baye de Mesle’ and shown whilst the west half of Hispaniola was occupied by France as the colony of Saint-Domingue.
Plate 72 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.72.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE DES BAYES / DU MESLE DES FLAMANDS / ET DE CAVAILLON/ dans l’Isle de St. Domingue / Echelle d’une demie Lieue Commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 72 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.72.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE DES BAYES / DU MESLE DES FLAMANDS / ET DE CAVAILLON/ dans l’Isle de St. Domingue / Echelle d’une demie Lieue Commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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