Plan of the Rapids or Falls of the Ohio

Subject

Ohio Falls, Ohio Rapids, Fort Louisville

Date

1796 (historical)

Mapmaker

Tardieu, [Jean Baptiste Pierre] (l'ainé), engraver

Publisher

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number

2086

Alternate number

Cusachs Collection

Condition

Poor. Very acidified, much browning, foxing, staining. Needs conservation.

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 17 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.

Size

5 3/4 x 7 1/2

Storage

c02d07