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Antique map titled 'Plan de la Ville et des Forts de St. Yago'. Plan of the Forts and Town of St. Yago in the Cape Verde Islands. This map originates from 'Histoire generale des voyages (..)' by Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exile.
Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772), one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century. With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as geographe de cabinet and transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early 19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. A true child of the Enlightenment Era, Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot's Encyclopedie. Bellin, despite his extraordinary success, may not have enjoyed his work, which is described as ""long, unpleasant, and hard."" In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.
Condition: Fair, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Water stain at the bottom of the print. Please study scan carefully.
Date: 1764
Overall size: 20 x 25.3 cm
Image size: 14.6 x 21.5 cm
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- Creator:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 9.97 in (25.3 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 0 in (0.01 mm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1764
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- Seller Location:Langweer, NL
- Reference Number:Seller: BL-000681stDibs: LU3054327794172
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 –1772) was a French hydrographer (official cartographer) and a geographer. While still a teenager he became the chief cartographer to the French Navy and later to the king of France. Bellin created a large number of maps for Antoine François Prévost's (L'Abbe Prevost) 'Histoire Generale des Voyages', which was a 25 volume publication focused on 17th and 18th century exploration.It was published in French, Dutch and German. He also contributed maps and articles to the 35-volume Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was part of the group called Philosophes, which included many of the great intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu. Bellin died at Versailles in 1772.
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