Road from Limestone to Frankfort in the state of Kentucky

Subject

Date

1796 (historical)

Mapmaker

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

Publisher

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number

2082

Alternate number

Cusachs Collection

Condition

Poor. Much browning, foxing, tape stains. This is only a PART of the map. Left portion missing. 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 22 [partial only] 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

15 x 14 1/2

Storage

c02d07