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Current Exhibition:The Triumph of the Passenger Ship: Highlights from the Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, 1870-2010 May 15, 2012 - August 23, 2012The Triumph of the Passenger Ship presents the experience of life aboard these grand vessels through a selection of the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera. Norman H. Morse assembled his collection of almost 3,000 pieces over eight decades, and gave it to the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education in 2009. (continued) |
(click on image to view in greater detail) | JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON D'ANVILLE French, 1697-1782 L'ISLE ESPANGNOLE SOUS LE NOM INDIEN D'HAYTI From: Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, HISTOIRE DE L'ISLE ESPAGNOLE . . . Paris, FRANÇOIS DIDOT, 1731 Engraving, 20.0 x 29.4 cm. |
L'ISLE ESPANGNOLE SOUS LE NOM INDIEN D'HAYTIWith the decline of the Spanish empire, other European countries encroached on Spanish territories. The Caribbean islands were particularly desirable because of their rich sugar plantations. Thomas Kitchin showed the political status of the Caribbean islands in 1770 with abbreviations (e.g., "Cuba S.," "S" being for "Spanish") and with outline colors (Spanish in red, French in green, English in yellow) (19); note both Kitchin's legend and his notes about specific islands. One such note deals with the island of Hispaniola: the western half of the island was ceded by Spain to the French in 1697 as the colony of St Domingue (it became the republic of Haiti in 1790). The divided island was an obvious subject for French map makers. Guillaume de l'Isle, géographe du roi, mapped the island in great detail and with great accuracy in his general atlas (20). J. B. B. d'Anville, another French royal geographer illustrated the island for an historical text; as Columbus had first landed on Hispaniola, his coat-of-arms which feature a map of the Caribbean was included (21). |
