Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons

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Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons

Biography

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Ibáñez was appointed engineer in charge of the fortification of [[Montevideo]] in the [[Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata]] by royal decree dated 29 March 1794, in response to Portuguese advances.{{cite journal |last1=Martínez Martín |first1=Carmen |title=Aportaciones cartográficas de D. Félix de Azara sobre el Virreinato del Río de la Plata |journal=Revista Complutense de Historia de América |date=1997 |volume=23 |page=187 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCHA/article/view/RCHA9797110167A |quote=Most of these features suggest it could be by Azara, as the title indicates, or a copy from one of his works, although unfinished. Given that a signature by Ibáñez appears behind it, it raises the possibility that it was a copy made by Agustín de Ibáñez y Bojons, the engineer appointed for the fortification of Montevideo, who may have used it in the maps he prepared for his 1794 reports on the Portuguese frontier.}}
Ibáñez was appointed engineer in charge of the fortification of [[Montevideo]] in the [[Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata]] by royal decree dated 29 March 1794, in response to Portuguese advances.{{cite journal |last1=Martínez Martín |first1=Carmen |title=Aportaciones cartográficas de D. Félix de Azara sobre el Virreinato del Río de la Plata |journal=Revista Complutense de Historia de América |date=1997 |volume=23 |page=187 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCHA/article/view/RCHA9797110167A |quote=Most of these features suggest it could be by Azara, as the title indicates, or a copy from one of his works, although unfinished. Given that a signature by Ibáñez appears behind it, it raises the possibility that it was a copy made by Agustín de Ibáñez y Bojons, the engineer appointed for the fortification of Montevideo, who may have used it in the maps he prepared for his 1794 reports on the Portuguese frontier.}}


[[File:Mapa de la América del Sur, Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons, 1800 (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile).tiff|thumb|Map of South America by Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons, created in 1800. It shows borders similar to those in the [[Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla|1775 map by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla]].{{cite journal |last1=Garay Vera |first1=Cristian Eduardo |title=Raúl Bazán Dávila, diplomático y nacionalista. Sus tesis sobre el Reino de Chile, límites y Argentina |journal=Historia & Guerra |date=2024 |volume=6 |pages=27–44 |url=https://portal.amelica.org/ameli/journal/678/6785119004/6785119004.pdf |issn=2796-8650 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Bazán Dávila |first1=Raúl |title=El patrimonio territorial que recibimos del Reino de Chile |date=1986 |publisher=Instituto de Investigaciones del Patrimonio Territorial de Chile |page=400 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Guillén Tato |first1=Julio |title=Monumenta Chartographica Indiana |date=1942 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain]] |page=20 |language=es}}]]
[[File:Mapa de la América del Sur, Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons, 1800 (Biblioteca Nacional de España) (contraste).jpg|thumb|Map of South America by Agustín Ibáñez y Bojons, created in 1800. It shows borders similar to those in the [[Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla|1775 map by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla]].{{cite journal |last1=Garay Vera |first1=Cristian Eduardo |title=Raúl Bazán Dávila, diplomático y nacionalista. Sus tesis sobre el Reino de Chile, límites y Argentina |journal=Historia & Guerra |date=2024 |volume=6 |pages=27–44 |url=https://portal.amelica.org/ameli/journal/678/6785119004/6785119004.pdf |issn=2796-8650 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Bazán Dávila |first1=Raúl |title=El patrimonio territorial que recibimos del Reino de Chile |date=1986 |publisher=Instituto de Investigaciones del Patrimonio Territorial de Chile |page=400 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Guillén Tato |first1=Julio |title=Monumenta Chartographica Indiana |date=1942 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain]] |page=20 |language=es}}]]


In 1800, Ibáñez created a map of South America that displays borders similar to those in the [[Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla|1775 map by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla]], with the notable difference that the Atlantic boundary of the Kingdom of Chile is drawn closer to the 36th parallel south rather than the 38th. The description, reproduced in the 1942 volume *Monumenta Chartographica Indiana* by [[Julio Guillén Tato]], prepared for the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)]], states that the map contains the "limits of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires," and the map itself includes the label "Fronteras de Buenos Ayres":
In 1800, Ibáñez created a map of South America that displays borders similar to those in the [[Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla|1775 map by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla]], with the notable difference that the Atlantic boundary of the Kingdom of Chile is drawn closer to the 36th parallel south rather than the 38th. The description, reproduced in the 1942 volume *Monumenta Chartographica Indiana* by [[Julio Guillén Tato]], prepared for the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)]], states that the map contains the "limits of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires," and the map itself includes the label "Fronteras de Buenos Ayres":
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