Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de hoofdstad van Louisiana [Plan of New Orleans, the Capital of Louisiana]

Subject

New Orleans; Mississippi River delta, location of buildings; Fort Balize

Date

[1769]

Mapmaker

[Tirion, Isaac]

Publisher

[Tirion, Isaac]

Place of Publication

[Amsterdam]

Accession Number

1982.077.149

Alternate number

Seiferth Collection

Condition

Fair. Acidified, browning.

Curatorial Notes

Colored. See Phillips, Vol. 1, p. 345, #600. Other copies (Dutch) located 02042; 1973.038.020; T0055.1997.0294; 1997.078.026. English edition located 09350.02. The "Fort that Commands the Channel" noted in the title of the lower right inset was Fort Balize (meaning buoy or beacon in French). Louisiana's first Spanish governor, Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795), took possession of the new Spanish colony on January 20, 1767, at this site.

Insets

1. De Uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi (sic) [The Course of the River Mississippi] 2. De Oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi met een Plan van het Fort, 't welk het Kanaal beheerscht [The Eastern Entrance of the Mississippi with a Design of the Fort that Commands the Channel]

Market Value

2001 Jan: e-nola auction, lot #75, for an English (untitled) edition, estimate $750-800
1997 Nov: Richard Fitch, map dealer catalog # 55: $485.00, who described it as "increasingly scarce."
1997 Aug: Cartographic Arts, $595.00
1982 appraisal: $475.00

Notes

Plate 112 from Tiron's "Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand Atlas." The map of New Orleans was probably taken from Thomas Jeffreys map published 10 years earlier. A key identifies 13 structures. Fort la Balise [Balize] is located on the river delta map.

Size

13 x 17 1/2

Storage

c02d03