COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
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JCBMAPS~1~1
JCB Map Collection
Collection
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Accession Number:
29098
accession_number
29098
Accession Number
false
File Name:
29098
file_name
29098
File Name
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Call number:
Cabinet C717 / 1 OVERSIZE
call_number
Cabinet C717 / 1 OVERSIZE
Call number
false
Map title:
[A new chart of the English Empire in North America]
map_title
[A new chart of the English Empire in North America]
Map title
false
Place of Publication:
Boston
place_of_publication
Boston
Place of Publication
false
Publisher:
Fra[ncis]: Dewing
publisher
Fra[ncis]: Dewing
Publisher
false
Publication date:
1717
publication_date
1717
Publication date
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Map size height:
68 cm.
map_size_height
68 cm.
Map size height
false
Map size width:
76.8 cm.
map_size_width
76.8 cm.
Map size width
false
Item description:
engraving
item_description
engraving
Item description
false
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.
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.
Geographical description
false
Source title:
To His Excellency Samuel Shute Esqr. ... This Chart is most humbly Dedicated & Presented by Capt Cyprian Southack
source_title
To His Excellency Samuel Shute Esqr. ... This Chart is most humbly Dedicated & Presented by Capt Cyprian Southack
Source title
false
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
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
References
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Geographic Area:
North America
geographic_area
North America
Geographic Area
false
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.
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.
Historical notes
false
Normalized date:
1717
normalized_date
1717
Normalized date
false
Creator:
Francis Dewing
creator
Francis Dewing
Creator
false
Creator:
Cyprian Southack
creator
Cyprian Southack
Creator
false