Africa Kongo Kingdom of Loango old print Bellin 1754

Title: Cité de Loango, Tirée de Dapper.

Description: Loango Old print Africa in bird eye view of Africa’s Kingdom during the 16th to 19th centuries in what is now the western part of the Republic of the Congo and Cabinda.
Original antique copper print in hand coloring.

Author: Olifert Dapper's description of the government in about 1640 is the only comprehensive one in existence for the seventeenth century.

Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 1772).
In 1721, at age 18, he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy.
In August 1741, he became the first Ingénieur de la Marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine (the French Hydrographical Office) and was named Official Hydrographer of the French King.
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine.

Engraver: Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (1715 Amsterdam – 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733).

Origin: Jean François de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages.

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Size:
Sheet app.: 13.5 x 10 inches. 34.5 x 25.5 cm.
Image app.: 11.75 x 8.75 inches. 30 x 22 cm.
Condition: Fine hand colored folded engraving in overall very good condition.
No water spots, not a copy, it shows the original antique map.

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