Map of Île-à-Vache
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 165mm
width (print): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Île-à-Vache, a small island off the south coast of Haiti, shown here as part of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which also included the west half of Hispaniola. The maps shows the terrain of the sparsely forested hilly island as well as the smaller islets that surround it.
Plate 73 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.73.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘PLAN / DE L’ISLE A VACHE / a la Coste de Sud de S.Domingue, / Echelle d’une Lieue Commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 73 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.73.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘PLAN / DE L’ISLE A VACHE / a la Coste de Sud de S.Domingue, / Echelle d’une Lieue Commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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