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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
29098
File Name:
29098
Call number:
Cabinet C717 / 1 OVERSIZE
Map title:
[A new chart of the English Empire in North America]
Place of Publication:
Boston
Publisher:
Fra[ncis]: Dewing
Publication date:
1717
Map size height:
68 cm.
Map size width:
76.8 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
Map or chart of the northeastern coast of North America. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude, sea banks or shoals, soundings, locations of capes, the Great Lakes, rivers and islands, scale, compass rose. Items in the image are numbered for identification in key at bottom right.
Source title:
To His Excellency Samuel Shute Esqr. ... This Chart is most humbly Dedicated & Presented by Capt Cyprian Southack
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1942, p. 26-38; McCorkle, B.B. New England in Early Printed Maps,717.2; Wheat & Brun, Maps and Charts, 44-46
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
This was the first engraved chart or map to be published in the English American colonies, and was also the oldest copper engraving produced in America of which copies are still extant. The only other example of this work is in the Public Record Office, London. Intended to alert the British at home and in the colonies to the threat posed by French encroachments on the west.
Normalized date:
1717
Creator:
Francis Dewing
Creator:
Cyprian Southack

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