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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: GRUNDRISS VON DEM FORT UND DER STADT AUF DEM VORGEBIRGE DER GUTEN HOFFNUNG.(Plan of the fort and the town on the promontory of Good Hope)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin  (1703–1772)  wikidata:Q607846 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
 
Alternative names
Jacques Nicolas, Sieur Bellin; Jacques Nicolas Bellin; Nicolas Bellin
Description French cartographer, encyclopédistes, geographer and hydrographer
Date of birth/death 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1772 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Versailles
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artist QS:P170,Q607846
Title
GRUNDRISS VON DEM FORT UND DER STADT AUF DEM VORGEBIRGE DER GUTEN HOFFNUNG.(Plan of the fort and the town on the promontory of Good Hope)
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English: Featured here is a rare c. 1750 map of Cape Town, South Africa, by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Map depicts the city and for of Cape Town in considerable detail with particular emphasis on the identifications of individual buildings and gardens. Text is printed in German and French.
Date 1750
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 8.5 in (21.5 cm); width: 10.5 in (26.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Gundriss-bellin-1750
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