Plan of Fort Niagra
Subject
Fort Niagra
Date
1796 (historical)
Mapmaker
[Tardieu, Jean Baptiste Pierre (l'ainé)], engraver
Publisher
[Bertrand, A.]
Place of Publication
[Paris]
Accession Number
2081
Alternate number
Cusachs Collection
Condition
Fair. Browning, acidified, 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 4 from Georges Henri Victor Collot's "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
8 x 10 5/8
Storage
c02d07