File:1764 Bellin Map of Macao China.jpg

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao.   (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 et du Port de Macao.
Description
English: This is a rare map of the city and port of Macao (Macau) dating to 1764 by Jacques N. Bellin. This map is one of the earliest depictions of Macao’s street structure. Shows fortifications, roads, several important buildings, the fort, and a Chinese village near the Portuguese city. This map was issued as map number 17 in volume 5 of Abbe Prevost's Historie universale des voyages . Varients were also issued for Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime and Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise .
Date 1764 (undated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593
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Geographicus link: Macao-bellin-1748
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