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Title
English: A Chart of the Bay of Mexico
Description
English: Until the publication of Guillaume Delisle's famous map Carte de la Louisiane of 1718, this English sea chart was the best printed map available of the Gulf Coast and the mouth of the Mississippi. The British book, map, and chart-making and publishing firm of Mount & Page may have issued the map separately as early as 1700 since that date appears to the east of the compass rose in the center of the Gulf. Coastal mapping scholar Jack Jackson speculated that the English probably had access to a captured copy of Spanish pilots Juan Enriquez Barroto's or Juan Bisente del Campo's maps of the Gulf Coast since they reflect Bisente's coastal details and Barroto's toponyms. Jackson also believed that the inset map at upper left may be based upon information from Captain William Bond's 1699 reconnaissance voyage of the mouth of the Mississippi on behalf of Dr. Daniel Coxe's Anglo-Dutch Carolana Company. At that time Bond's ship ascended the river to a point just below New Orleans before Bienville convinced him that the French already controlled the river. Unfortunately, Bond's presumed charts are missing. Mount & Page's chart and its Gulf coast interpretation was also influential for other English chartmakers.
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Source UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text
Creator
Richard Mount  (1654–1722)    wikidata:Q18813336
 
Alternative names
Richard Mount I; R. Mount
Date of birth/death 1654  Edit this at Wikidata 29 June 1722  Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q18813336
Thomas Page  (–1733)    wikidata:Q19325633
 
Alternative names
T. Page; Thomas Page I
Date of birth/death 1733  Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q19325633
Credit line
English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections
 Geotemporal data
Map location Gulf of Mexico
 Bibliographic data
Publication
Atlas Novus Maritimus
Author
Richard Mount  (1654–1722)    wikidata:Q18813336
 
Alternative names
Richard Mount I; R. Mount
Date of birth/death 1654  Edit this at Wikidata 29 June 1722  Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q18813336
Thomas Page  (–1733)    wikidata:Q19325633
 
Alternative names
T. Page; Thomas Page I
Date of birth/death 1733  Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q19325633
Place of publication London
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Dimensions height: 46 cm (18.1 in); width: 57.5 cm (22.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,46U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,57.5U174728
Medium hand-colored engraving on paper
artwork-references

Jackson, Jack Flags Along the Coast, no. 18 , pp. 46, 50–55

Hoffman, Paul E. (2003) "Discovery and Early Cartography of the Northern Gulf Coast" in Lemmon, Alfred E. , ed. Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps, New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, pp. 18, 35

Huseman, Ben W. (2016) Enlightenment Mapmakers and the Southwest Borderlands: Treasures from the Virginia Garrett Cartographic Library, Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, no. 35 , p. 32


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The author died in 1733, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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