Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22408

    Map of Antigua

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 145mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of Antigua in the Caribbean Sea, one of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles and part of the archipelagic country of Antigua and Barbuda. St. John's Harbour can be seen on the northwest side of the island, with various capes and bays labelled across its distinctive coastline.

    Plate 85 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.85.’ With a cartouche at the top: ‘CARTE DE L’ISLE D’ANTINGUE / Située par la Latitude 17 Degrés et par la / Longitude de 64 Degrés a l’Occident de Paris / Echelle / de Trois Lieues communes de France de 25 au Degré.’

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
    Associated place
    Powered by CollectionsIndex+/CollectionsOnline