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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Carte de la Baye de la Table et Rade eu Cap de Bonne Experance.   (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
Carte de la Baye de la Table et Rade eu Cap de Bonne Experance.
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English: This hand colored map is a c. 1763 map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town, South Africa. 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 villages show the area in considerable detail. Shows the “Village of the Hottentots”, Blue Mountain, Cow Mountain, Table Mountain, The City of Cape Town itself, Tigerbergen, and many other features. Some oceanic depths are indicated. Of interest is also the Isle of Robben, located centrally on the map. Long a place of exile and punishment, this island prison had a reputation for brutality and cruelty. Today a museum honors the site of so much suffering.
Date 1763
date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 7 in (17.7 cm); width: 9 in (22.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9U218593
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