JACQUES NICOLAS BELLIN
PLAN DE BOMBAY ET SES ENVIRONS
Year: 1764Size: 34.7 x 25.2 cm (13.6 x 9.9 inches)
Beautifully drawn early map of Bombay Harbour, known today as "Front ay." Shows depths and sandbars. Also includes pictorial details including churches, forts, and ships. This map by Jean Nicholas Bellin is engraved by Jacob van der Schley, published as plate no. 3 in volume 9 of the 1752 French edition of Abbe Provost's Abrege L'Histoire Generale Des Voyages.
This is the Plan of Bombay and its Vicinity, which is a sea route map of the island of Bombay (consisting of seven smaller islands), the island of Salsette, the island of the Jesuites (Jesuites are an order of Roman Catholic priests), the island of Caronja, and the island of Chaul.
Jacques Nicholas Bellin (1703-1772)
Jacques Nicolas Bellin was a French cartographer, geographer, and hydrographer. He worked during the French Enlightenment in the early eighteenth century in the royal hydrography Dépôt des Cartes et Plans, the official map makers of the French Navy. Enlightenment ideology highly influenced Bellin’s work, emphasising the importance of reason and standardisation when making maps for a global audience.
Bellin was born in 1703 in Paris, France. Skilled in cartography and hydrography from an early age, he began to clerk for the French Navy’s Dépôt des Cartes et Plans in 1721. Twenty years later, King Louis XV awarded Bellin the title of ingenieur-hydrographe de le Marine, and he assumed the position of chief hydrographer of the Royal Navy.
Bellin’s most significant contribution was his Le Petit Atlas Maritime, which depicted nearly six hundred maritime charts, maps, and plans relevant to the global French Empire. Even though Bellin never left France to work on maps of North America and the Caribbean, he completed dozens depicting the waterways around present-day Canada, major port cities in the British colonies, and French commercial interests in the Caribbean.
Bellin produced his first work, a maritime chart depicting the Mediterranean Sea, under the direction of the Dépôt in 1737. In the accompanying mémorie (the means of validating a map’s accuracy and usefulness),
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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