TRANQUEBAR: Old Maps



Painting of Fort Dansborg - private owned (K. Knudsen).
(The painting is from 2002 and painted by Mr. G. Manohar, Chennai, for the inauguration on July 14th)
Measures: about 80 x 40 [cm].

Old picture from Tranquebar about 1850.
Fort Dansborg.
Fort Dansborg
The original map is in The Royal Library, Copenhagen. (Click on Det Kongelige Bibliotek).
Fort Dansborg - 1723.
 
[Castellet Dansbor [i.e. Dansborg] og Festningen Tranquebar : en Pars ud af den Coromandelske Kyst / O.G. [?] v Sponeck.] 
The Citadel Dansbor (Dansborg) and the fortress Tranquebar: A part out of the Coromandel Coast / by Sponeck.  1730.

Measures: 110 x 70 [cm]. 
The original map is in The Royal Library, Copenhagen. (Click on Det Kongelige Bibliotek).
The Coromandel Coast, between Nagepatnam and Tranquebar : The fortress Nagapattenam, The pagoda China, Trimel Pattenam, Morsche Temple, Mallebar, the pagoda at  Carre Call. 
About 1730.
(Drawing which shows buildings and landscapes seen from seaside.)

Measures: 118 x 47 [cm].
The original map is in The Royal Library, Copenhagen. (Click on Det Kongelige Bibliotek).
The map is from 1671 and.

The Royal Danish Library.

Trellund's map of Tranquebar from 1733.
Measures: 95 x 82 [cm].

The original map is in The Royal Library, Copenhagen. (Click on Det Kongelige Bibliotek).
Mathæus Seutter's map of Tranquebar from 1767


The city-area from the map left.
Bellins map from 1761 printed in Paris.
This old map showing the Tranquebar-area is the same, which in copy is seen in Dansborg Museum.		 Sheet measures 14" W x 13 1/4" H. 
Image (map) measures 12" W x 11 3/4" H.

Left: No information.
 
Same map below:
The Danish area around Tranquebar. The map is made out of several drawings made by the missionaires around 1730.(Copperplate by Matthæus Seutter 1744, The Royal Danish Library).
Measurements: 59 x 52 [cm]

Tranquebar and the Danisborg on two French maps of the 18th century


Tranquebar map from 1778 - from the French Archieves, New Delhi.

Above you see Peter Anker's map of Tranquebar and fort Dansborg. The original map is in Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo University, Norway.
Measures: 51 x 35,7 [cm]. (Frame: 58,5 x 43,4).
See the map below.
Left: 
Map showing the Tranquebar-area. The map is from 1810 and the original is in the writer K.E.Møhl's book "Letters from India".
Measures:  29 x 46 [cm].

Peter Anker's map of Tranquebar.
Mühldorff: Map of the old area of Tranquebar. 
Measures:  98,5 x 73,5 [cm].
(Frame:  101,5  x 76). 

The original map is in Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo University, Norway.

Müldorff: Plan of Tranquebar. 
Measures: 39 x 35 [cm]. 
(Frame: 59 x 47,5). 

The original map is in Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo University, Norway.

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