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an illustrated map of Boston, Massachusetts
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Plan de la Ville de Boston et ses Environs.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
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 Ville de Boston et ses Environs.
Description
English: This hand colored map is a c. 1756 map of Boston, Massachusetts. Attributed to French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, this map was issued for the French edition of Provost’s Histoire des Voyages…. Beautifully rendered in stupendous detail. Shows Boston and Charlestown as well as parts of Isle Ronde and the mainland. Important destinations identified with letters that correspond to a key to the left of the map proper. These include three cannon batteries, the Presbyterian Church, the Quaker temple, the Anabaptist Church, the City Hall, the Armory, Faneuil Hall (Spelled Fanal), etc.. Published as plate no. 10 in volume XIV of Provost’s Histoire des Voyages…. Bellin would later issue a very similar version of this map in his 1764 Petit Atlas Maritime .
Date 1756 (undated)
Dimensions height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm); width: 10.5 in (26.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Boston2-bellin-1756
Source/Photographer

Provost, A., L`Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1756, Vol XIV, plate 10. Also issued in Bellin, J. N., Le Petit Atlas Maritime. Recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde.

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