COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
30459
File Name:
30459-000
Call number:
Cabinet Er780 LoJ
Map title:
Carta de la isla de la Antigua reducida y gravada por D. Juan Lopez, Pensionista de S.M
Place of Publication:
Madrid
Publication date:
1780
Map size height:
38 cm.
Map size width:
38 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map
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).
References:
BMPM 9/228; Tooley, Antigua 41
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
Scale 1:
ca. 85,000
Normalized date:
1780
LC bibliographic number:
b5405722x
Creator:
López, Juan, 1765-1825
Carta de la isla de la Antigua reducida y gravada por D. Juan Lopez, Pensionista de S.M
