Mapa de la Bahia y Ciudad de S.Phelipe de Portobelo

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Scale: [ca. 1:14 000]. Cartographic Note: North at eight degrees. Lines of soundings across the bay. Scale in tuesses. Additional Places: Panama. Contents Note: Fortifications shown with their lines of fire. Trompe d'oeil title and key cartouche.
One of fourteen charts bound in a Spanish manuscript book of 1778 reviewing the defences of ports and anchorages in Central and South America.

Administrative / biographical background
The title refers to the destruction of the fortifications by the English in 1739.

Record Details

Item reference: P/18(2); MS1931-9938
Level: PART
Extent: 31 x 42.5cm
Date made: 1778
Creator: Surville, Luis de
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London