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Guayane, Terre Ferme, Isles Antilles, et Nlle. Espagne.

1788 Brion de la Tour Map of Mexico

A stunning decorative 1766 map of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies by Louis Brion de la Tour. Covers from the Chesapeake Bay south to Peru and the Amazon but focuses on Mexico and the Caribbean region. Decorative baroque style title cartouche in the upper right quadrant of the map proper. Flanked on either side by a textual description of the region in French. Surrounded by a magnificent baroque border featuring cherubs engaged in the study of geography and mapmaking. Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and published by S.

Date
1766
Place
the Caribbean
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
5,000 × 3,642 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Guayane, Terre Ferme, Isles Antilles, et Nlle. Espagne." (1766). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1788_Brion_de_la_Tour_Map_of_Mexico,_Central_America_and_the_West_Indies_(_Antilles_)_-_Geographicus_-_Antilles-brion-1766.jpg

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