Print Description
This print shows a view on the map of Vera-Cruz, situated by the sea, in Mexico, North America. Several places of interest are mentoined in the city like the Jesuit monastry, the church.
Made by Jakob van Schley after Jacques-Nicolas Bellin .
Medium: Engraving with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 18 x 24.5 cm (7.09 x 9.65 inch). Image size: 15.8 x 24 cm. (6.22 x 9.45 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Red edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
VERA CRUZ-HARBOUR-SEA-MEXICO-NORTH AMERICA | RBOS-A9-32
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in ‘Pour l’Histoire Genaeraldes voyages’, 1754.
Biography engraver: Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 ? 7 February 1779) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733) whose style he subsequently copied. .
Biography artist: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 ? 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. He was hydrographer of France’s hydrographic office, member of the Acad?mie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced many maps of particular interest to the Minist?re de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. .
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