Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Plan de la ville et des environs de Macao

Barcode: 
4687820501168
Title: 
Plan de la ville et des environs de Macao
Contributor: 
Dupont, Paul-François, 1796-1879, lithographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
[1846]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 4456 × 3576, 29MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
24 x 24 cm, on sheet 28 x 35 cm
Note: 
his is a plan of the Macau Peninsula with the Green Island, part of Lapa or Priest's Island (Ile des Prêtres) and Xiangshan (Ile Heang-Shan). On the city of Macau the buildings appear geometric, typical of a plan, with focus given to Mount Fort. 57 places are numbered both in Macau and Lapa even though no legend is given. On Xiangshan, Casa Branca is identified by a drawing of a small house next to a pagoda.
Note: 
Original is a lithograph, 24 x 24 cm, on sheet 28 x 35 cm.
Note: 
On the right corner of the map: "Lith. P. Dupont, rue Grenelle S.t Honoré, 55."
Note: 
There is a 16-point compass rose with an arrow indicating north.
Note: 
Relief shown by hachures, pictorially and rock drawing.
Note: 
Map outlined in simple fillet.
Note: 
City plans of Macao.
Reference: 
Montigny, M.C. Manuel du négociant français en Chine, ou Commerce de la Chine considéré au point de vue français, p. 283
Subject: 
Macao (China) -- Maps
Geographic Area: 
Macao (China)
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43637964z
Provenance Call No.: 
GE DL 1846-54
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000825489705076