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TIRION, Isaac (d. 1769)
[New Orleans] Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de Hoosdstad van Louisiana. / De Uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi. / De Oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi, met een Plan van het Fort, 't welk het Kanaal beheerscht.
Amsterdam: [1767]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 17 x 21 5/8 inches.
A highly decorative eighteenth-century map of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, with beautiful original colour.
The eminent Amsterdam cartographer Izaak Tirion derived this superb map from the Plan of New Orleans the Capital of Louisiana of 1759 by Thomas Jefferys. The left half of the map focuses on the city of New Orleans itself, founded in 1717 by the Sieur d'Iberville. As noted in the title of the map, it is largely based on the original manuscript plan of the city drafted by Le Blond de la Tour in 1722. It is also thought that Jefferys consulted Bellin's 1744 map of the city. The ordered symmetry of the city's layout is captured, and every street is individually labeled. The outlines of the buildings are detailed, and major edifices are labeled, such as the Parish Church of St. Louis, the monastery of the Capuchine Friars, the House of the Indendant, and theHospital and Convent of the Ursulines, the latter being the oldest building in the city that survives to this day. The right half of the map is divided into two maps, the upper map depicts New Orleans within the context of the lower Mississippi and its delta. The map below details the eastern mouth of the Mississippi, which is guarded by Fort La Balise.
Goss, The Mapping of North America, 63; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.496
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#13955 $1,850.00 
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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