Plan of the Town of Pittsburg | Louisiana State Museums

Subject

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Fort Lafayette, ruins of Fort Pitt, forts stone quarry

Date

1796 (historical)

Mapmaker

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

Publisher

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number

120

Alternate number

Cusachs Collection

Condition

Fair. Some foxing, 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 6 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

7 1/2 x 11

Storage

c02d07