Map of the Southern Windward Islands
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Southern Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, showing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Lucia. The western edge of Barbados is also visible, marked as being off the edge of the map.
Plate 80 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.80.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘PARTIE DES / ISLES ANTILLES / 1. Partie / Echelle de Dix Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, with the longitude centred on the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 80 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.80.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘PARTIE DES / ISLES ANTILLES / 1. Partie / Echelle de Dix Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, with the longitude centred on the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.