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Title
English: A Chart of the Bay of Mexico
DescriptionMount & Page Chart of the Bay of Mexico 1700 UTA.jpg
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.
Date
Source
UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text
Creator
Richard Mount
(1654–1722)
Alternative names
Richard Mount I; R. Mount
Date of birth/death
1654
29 June 1722
Authority file
: Q76082403
VIAF: 1380159477544427990001
LCCN: nr95040570
Oxford Dict.: 50892
SUDOC: 133021726
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q18813336
Thomas Page
(–1733)
Alternative names
T. Page; Thomas Page I
Date of birth/death
1733
Authority file
: Q19325633
VIAF: 51485283
LCCN: no2007156716
Oxford Dict.: 73395
WorldCat
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)
Alternative names
Richard Mount I; R. Mount
Date of birth/death
1654
29 June 1722
Authority file
: Q76082403
VIAF: 1380159477544427990001
LCCN: nr95040570
Oxford Dict.: 50892
SUDOC: 133021726
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q18813336
Thomas Page
(–1733)
Alternative names
T. Page; Thomas Page I
Date of birth/death
1733
Authority file
: Q19325633
VIAF: 51485283
LCCN: no2007156716
Oxford Dict.: 73395
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q19325633
Place of publication
London
Archival data
Collection
University of Texas at Arlington
Native name
University of Texas at Arlington
Parent institution
University of Texas System
Location
Arlington, Texas, United States of America
Coordinates
32° 43′ 50.4″ N, 97° 06′ 52.5″ W
Established
1895
Website
www.uta.edu
Authority file
: Q1230739
VIAF: 149305872
ISNI: 0000000121819515
LCCN: n82072852
SUDOC: 028935020
BNF: 12066758c
WorldCat
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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