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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Plan de la Rade et Ville de la Vera-cruz. Situee par 19. deg. 10 min. de Lat. Sep. et 100 d. 15 m. a l'Occid de Paris.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin  (1703–1772)  wikidata:Q607846 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
 
Alternative names
Jacques Nicolas, Sieur Bellin; Jacques Nicolas Bellin; Nicolas Bellin
Description French cartographer, encyclopédistes, geographer and hydrographer
Date of birth/death 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1772 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Versailles
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artist QS:P170,Q607846
Title
Plan de la Rade et Ville de la Vera-cruz. Situee par 19. deg. 10 min. de Lat. Sep. et 100 d. 15 m. a l'Occid de Paris.
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English: This hand colored map is a c. 1754 map of the Veracruz, Mexico. Attributed to French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, this map was issued for the French edition of Provost’s Histoire des Voyages…. Beautifully rendered mountains and coastlines show the area in considerable detail. Details the Ville de la Veracruz, labeling many of the city’s most important buildings, including the “Grand Eglise”, the office of the Inquisition, the house of the Jesuits, the governor’s home, “La Douane”, the “Maison de la Compagnie de l’Assiente”, and the house of the Augustans. Also notes the Fort of St. Jean d’Ulua. This gigantic fort was the base of Spanish operations in Mexico for over a hundred years before being converted into a prison and, ultimately, a museum.
Date 1754 (dated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 6.5 in (16.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,6.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Veracruz-bellin-1754
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Provost, A., L`Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1756, Vol XII, plate 7. Also issued in Bellin, J. N., Le Petit Atlas Maritime. Recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde.

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