File:De Fer Les costes aux environs de la riviere de Misisipi 1701 UTA.jpg
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Français : Les costes aux environs de la riviere de Misisipi: decouvertes par Mr. de la Salle en 1683 et reconnues par Mr. le Chevallier d'Iberville en 1698 et 1699 |
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DescriptionDe Fer Les costes aux environs de la riviere de Misisipi 1701 UTA.jpg |
English: Engraved by Vincent de Ginville.
De Fer's deceptively simple map of 1701 was a major improvement over earlier printed maps of the Gulf coast area. It incorporated much new information from the recent 1698 and 1699 French expeditions of Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, and his brother Jean Baptiste, and it emphasized the earlier explorations of La Salle. Importantly, it drew upon a new placement of the Mississippi credited to the gifted young geographe Guillaume Delisle before he had been able to publish his own detailed map of the area. Political sensitivities probably had prevented Delisle from including information about d'Iberville's explorations on his 1700 map of North America because the French were in the middle of negotiations with the Spanish over Louis XIV's grandson Philippe, duc d'Anjou's succession to the Spanish throne as Felipe V. The French had not wanted to upset the Spanish any further with news of d'Iberville's activities in their claimed territories until the uncertainty was over. By 1701, this mattered less. De Fer's engraver Vincent de Ginville included interesting vignettes of La Salle's tragic murder and that of his assassin in the cartouche, which tend to draw the viewer's attention away from the map itself. Like his competitors the Delisles, who at this time were also studying manuscript maps from the French expeditions as well as copies of earlier Spanish maps, De Fer now placed the Mississippi entering the Gulf in a location east of present Texas and created a much better defined coast. Not only does de Fer show an approximate location for La Salle's failed fort near Matagorda Bay, there are also forts in the area around what should be Lakes Pontchartrain and Bourne. De Fer's Spanish sources probably also included the Abbé Bernou's copy of Carlos de Sigüenz y Gongora's map of 1689 which showed the route of Alonso de León's expedition to find La Salle and Juan Bisente del Campo's copy of Spanish mapping efforts along the coast by Juan Enríquez Barroto. The French had found Bisente's chart along with two French survivors of La Salle's expedition in 1697, when they captured a Spanish ship. Before de Fer produced this map, he had published a large wall map in 1698 that followed Coronelli's model of the area in showing the Mississippi entering the Gulf in Texas. |
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creator QS:P170,Q1648130 |
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English: UTA Libraries Special Collections |
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Map location | North America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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L'Atlas Curieux |
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Place of publication | Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q1648130 |
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739 |
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height: 22.5 cm (8.8 in); width: 34 cm (13.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,22.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,34U174728 |
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colored engraving on paper colored etching print on paper |
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artwork-references |
Jackson, Jack (1995) Flags along the Coast: Charting the Gulf of Mexico, 1519-1759: A Reappraisal, The Book Club of Texas, pp. 13, 36, 37, 39, 44, 46, 48, 53, 54, 59, 119, 120, 121, 122 Schwartz, Seymour I.; Henry Taliaferro (March 1984). "A Newly Discovered First State of a Foundation Map 'L'Amerique Septentrionale'". Map Collector 26. Martin; Martin (1984, 1999) Maps of Texas and the Southwest, pp. 90−91 |
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