Map of the Virgin Islands
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 245mm
width (print): 245mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Virgin Islands archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, showing the island of Saint Croix at the lower left and the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, Tortola and Anegada above it. The names of some of the smaller islands are also marked on the map, along with the locations of forts, churches and harbours.
Plate 77 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.77.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DES ISLES DES / VIERGES / Par le Sr. B Ingenr / de la Marine.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.