Roseaux, St. Lucia Island Map by Bellin, Handcolored Engraving, 1763

Name: Roseaux, St. Lucia Island Map by Bellin, Handcolored Engraving, 1763
Brand: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
SKU: BG-13618-10
Price: 275 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1763
Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Kind: Maps
Size: 32 × 23.5 cm (12.6 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition with minor brown spots mostly outside the image. Study the image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: The Lesser Antilles
Reference: BG-13618-10

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The harbor of Roseaux on St. Lucia, an original copper engraving with hand color by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, dated 1763 in the cartouche. The title reads "Plan du Cul de Sac des Roseaux dans l'Isle de Ste. Lucie", with a scale of eighty toises, and the sheet is numbered Tome I, No. 97 from Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime.

A narrow, deep inlet runs up the middle of the sheet, covered with soundings in fathoms that show the depth of the anchorage. A spit of land marked "Banc rempli de Rochers a Chaux" (a bank full of limestone rocks) divides the inlet, and "Habitations" are shown on the shore where the houses stand. The land on both sides is drawn in hill hachure, with woods in green wash, and a large compass rose with rhumb lines occupies the lower left. The title is set in a decorated cartouche at the upper left.

Bellin was the French Navy's Hydrographer, and his plans of harbors and anchorages for the French West Indies served as working references for mariners as well as illustrations in his atlas.

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