Summary
| Title |
Amérique Septentrionale |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: The research d'Anville conducted for this map included reading several decades' worth of exploration and travel narratives as well as maps by his predecessors and contemporaries, yet he realized there were still vast areas of the continent where nothing was yet known. D'Anville's map of North America corrected much of the exaggerations and distortions found on Delisle's earlier maps, adding newer, more precise information about the shapes of the Great Lakes and the configuration of the Mississippi basin, including the lower Missouri, Arkansas, and lower Red Rivers. Along the lower Missouri, for example, d'Anville depicted Fort d'Orléans (established in 1723) after carefully studying accounts by its founder, Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (1679-1734), who had returned to France in 1725 with his Missouria wife and a number of Native American tribal representatives. Important sources for the Gulf coast were the field survey maps of French engineer Valentin Devin (d. 1735), who had first arrived in Louisiana in 1719. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Cartographic Connections: map / text | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Creator |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line |
English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geotemporal data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Map location | Northern America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georeferencing | If inappropriate please set warp_status = skip to hide. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bibliographic data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of publication | Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Printed by |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Archival data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Height: 46 cm (18.1 in); Width: 87 cm (34.2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | hand-colored engraving on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Français : Publiée sous les auspices de Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans, prémier prince du sang / par le Sr. D'Anville, MDCCXLVI. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artwork-references |
L'Italien, Raymonde; Jean-François Palomino, Denis Vaugeois; Kathe Roth, transl. () Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814, Sillery, Quebec: Les editions du Septentrion, pp. 58−96 Jackson, Jack () Flags Along the Coast: Charting the Gulf of Mexico, 1519-1759: A Reappraisal, Austin: The Book Club of Texas, p. 193 Huseman, Ben W. () Enlightenment Mapmakers and the Southwest Borderlands: Treasures from the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, Arlington: UTA Libraries Special Collections, no. 13 , pp. 16−17 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
|
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries as part of a cooperation project. The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is part of the University of Texas at Arlington, a public research university located in Arlington, Texas.
|
|
The author died in 1782, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1926. |
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | |