Carte particuliere des environs de la Rade de Brest

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Scale: [ca. 1:150 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Soundings shown. Scale in toises. Faint pencil copy lines divide sheet into 17mm squares. Contents Note: Key to batteries and number of guns.
From an atlas of seventeen plans of French ports: 'Recueil des plans ou cartes des principaux ports de royaume'.

Administrative / biographical background
The atlas belonged to Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux, Comte de Maurepas, who became Ministre de la Marine in 1723.

Record Details

Item reference: P/30(6); MS 9935 MS9935
Level: PART
Extent: 42 x 75.5cm
Date made: 1724
Creator: Anonymous
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London