Original antique hand-colored engraving of 1748 with the bird's-eye view of the city of Santo Domingo: the grid plan within the walled enclosure, the mouth of the Ozama with its craft and the ships at anchor in the roadstead, the title in a cartouche at the foot.
Original antique hand-colored engraving of 1748 with the bird's-eye view of the city of Santo Domingo: the grid plan within the walled enclosure, the mouth of the Ozama with its craft and the ships at anchor in the roadstead, the title in a cartouche at the foot.
Drawn and engraved by Chedel for the "Histoire générale des voyages" of the Abbé Prévost, published in Paris under the cartographic direction of Jacques Nicolas Bellin; it carries the references of the work, "Tom. XII. No V.".
Medium: Copper engraving, hand-colored
Artist and engraver: Chedel
Date: 1748
Source: Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages, Paris
Dimensions: 12.0 x 8.2 in (30.5 x 20.8 cm)
Condition: Fair. Period color well preserved; vertical binding folds and a small hole in the center of the sheet.