COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
mediaCollectionId
JCBMAPS~1~1
JCB Map Collection
Collection
true
Accession Number:
30459
accession_number
30459
Accession Number
false
File Name:
30459-000
file_name
30459-000
File Name
false
Call number:
Cabinet Er780 LoJ
call_number
Cabinet Er780 LoJ
Call number
false
Map title:
Carta de la isla de la Antigua reducida y gravada por D. Juan Lopez, Pensionista de S.M
map_title
Carta de la isla de la Antigua reducida y gravada por D. Juan Lopez, Pensionista de S.M
Map title
false
Place of Publication:
Madrid
place_of_publication
Madrid
Place of Publication
false
Publication date:
1780
publication_date
1780
Publication date
false
Map size height:
38 cm.
map_size_height
38 cm.
Map size height
false
Map size width:
38 cm.
map_size_width
38 cm.
Map size width
false
Item description:
Engraved map
item_description
Engraved map
Item description
false
Geographical description:
Map of Antigua with churches, windmills, and some principal landholdings. At sea are numerous shoals, reefs, and soundings. Rhumblines clustered around compass indicator of SE cape of the island. Title at lower right, in rococo cartouche. At upper right is a long note criticising previous maps, largely for mistaking Antigua's longitude, and indicating source materials such as the English pilot, 1723 edition, Jacques Nicolas Bellin's map, and the work of Fleurieu. Below the bottom frame line is "Se hallar?sta con las obras de mi Padre en Madrid en la calle de las Carretas." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Mercator's projection; prime meridian Tenerife, Canary Is. (given as "Longitud Oriental del Pico de Teyde"). (a scale of "Leguas que se usan en Espa??Francia ?nglaterra de las que entran 20 en un grado" runs up the left hand side).
geographical_description
Map of Antigua with churches, windmills, and some principal landholdings. At sea are numerous shoals, reefs, and soundings. Rhumblines clustered around compass indicator of SE cape of the island. Title at lower right, in rococo cartouche. At upper right is a long note criticising previous maps, largely for mistaking Antigua's longitude, and indicating source materials such as the English pilot, 1723 edition, Jacques Nicolas Bellin's map, and the work of Fleurieu. Below the bottom frame line is "Se hallar?sta con las obras de mi Padre en Madrid en la calle de las Carretas." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Mercator's projection; prime meridian Tenerife, Canary Is. (given as "Longitud Oriental del Pico de Teyde"). (a scale of "Leguas que se usan en Espa??Francia ?nglaterra de las que entran 20 en un grado" runs up the left hand side).
Geographical description
false
References:
BMPM 9/228; Tooley, Antigua 41
references
BMPM 9/228; Tooley, Antigua 41
References
false
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
geographic_area
Caribbean
Geographic Area
false
Scale 1:
ca. 85,000
scale_1
ca. 85,000
Scale 1
false
Normalized date:
1780
normalized_date
1780
Normalized date
false
LC bibliographic number:
b5405722x
lc_bibliographic_number
b5405722x
LC bibliographic number
false
Creator:
López, Juan, 1765-1825
creator
López, Juan, 1765-1825
Creator
false