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SOUTH AMERICA, MONTEVIDEO, Planta de la Ensenada de San Felipe de Monte Video, 1727
Manuscript chart of the inlet of San Felipe, Montevideo, at Rio de la Plata, Uruguay, brown ink and coloured washes on paper laid down on cloth (41.8 x 69cm.), sea and rivers in green, hills indicated in grey, fortifications in light brown, soundings, compass point, rhumb-lines, three scalebars and extensive key. (Some surface abrasion with occasional small losses.)
An early and highly decorative manuscript chart of Montevideo, with detailed explanations of the fortifications recently built to protect it, with deep water and safe anchorages marked. The Fort of San José and battery (marked A), at a strategic position to guard the bay, were begun in 1724 and finished by December 1725 by Don Domingo Petrarca, Captain and Engineer. The town of San Felipe y Santigo was founded in 1728, and this plan marks out a situation for its contstruction (C), identifying it as a desolate area of land abandoned by the Portuguese.
Manuscript chart of the inlet of San Felipe, Montevideo, at Rio de la Plata, Uruguay, brown ink and coloured washes on paper laid down on cloth (41.8 x 69cm.), sea and rivers in green, hills indicated in grey, fortifications in light brown, soundings, compass point, rhumb-lines, three scalebars and extensive key. (Some surface abrasion with occasional small losses.)
An early and highly decorative manuscript chart of Montevideo, with detailed explanations of the fortifications recently built to protect it, with deep water and safe anchorages marked. The Fort of San José and battery (marked A), at a strategic position to guard the bay, were begun in 1724 and finished by December 1725 by Don Domingo Petrarca, Captain and Engineer. The town of San Felipe y Santigo was founded in 1728, and this plan marks out a situation for its contstruction (C), identifying it as a desolate area of land abandoned by the Portuguese.
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