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BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS: MAP OF THE BAY OF BAKAR

BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS: MAP OF THE BAY OF BAKAR

Inventory number 498
Original title: Plan des Ports de Buccari et Porto-Re Dans le Golphe de Venise
Publishing year: 1771
Place of publishing and publisher: Paris
Format: 20 x 15,3 cm
Technique: Copper engraving

The map shows the Bay of Bakar (Buccari) with anchors at Bakarac (Buccarizza) and Kraljevica (Porto Re). The depths on the approach to the port of Bakar are also indicated. This is also stated in the title cartouche. The map was created at the end of the Venetian administration. The inland of the island was not interesting to the author and there is only a schematic representation of relief using scattered molehills. Apart from the main settlements, the toponyms of bays, gulfs, and capes are missing. The orientation is northwest, so the map is rotated in the east. The compass rose with 16 segments is located on the left edge of the map. Hydrographer Bellin considered batimetric data (expressed in fathoms, one fathom being 6 feet long) the most interesting as theyare very important navigational data, as well as the distribution of weapons, that is, fortresses and batteries, located on both banks of the approach channel. The southern coast is particularly fortified, with Batterie de 18 pieces de Canon and Chateau ou est la Garnison. The title cartouche with the graphic scale (Echelle de huit cent Toises) is in the top left corner. A note on the number of the plate in the atlas (Pl. XIV.) is above the map frame.

BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas (1703-1772) was a famous French cartographer who spent many years in the French Hydrograph Service. In 1772, Bellin was appointed the first « Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine » (Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine), as well as later in life “Hydrograph to the King”. As the first French marine cartographer, he made many maps. He is best known for his high quality sea charts of the French colonies, including those located in North America. Bellin’s other works include atlases out of which the most noted are: «Hydrographique Francais» in 2 volumes (1756-1765) and «Petit Atlas Francais» in 5 volumes (1763), republished in 1765 under the title «Petit Atlas Maritime». He engraved world maps for Abbe Prevost’s work «Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746-1757)». For their popularity and high esteem they enjoyed, many cartographers inserted his maps in their atlases long beyond Bellin’s life span.
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