General Map of the River Ohio, A
Subject
Ohio River from Long Reach east to Mingo Town, Pittsburg, M. Kee's Port
Date
1796 (historical)
Mapmaker
Tardieu, [Jean Baptiste Pierre] (l'ainé), engraver
Publisher
[Bertrand, A.]
Place of Publication
[Paris]
Accession Number
2072
Alternate number
Cusachs Collection
Condition
Fair. Foxing, staining, browning, surface dirt
Curatorial Notes
Allegedly, all but 100 copies of the English and 300 copies of the French editions were destroyed. See Phillips, Vol. 1, p. 664, #1214-15.
Notes
Plate 8 {one of four of the Ohio River} from Georges Henri Victor Collot's 1826 "Voyage dans 'Amerique Septentrionale." Published posthumously, Collot's survey in 1796 was part of an intelligence mission into Spanish Louisiana and Florida in preparation for a possible French attack on the Spanish colonies. Collot was arrested by Governor Carondelet and expelled from the colony. Both English and French editions of the atlas were printed in 1805, but not published until 1826.
Media Type
mounted on cloth
Size
11 1/2 x 18 7/8
Storage
c02d07