Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Recens edita totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali siti
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Accession Number:
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32319
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File Name:
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32319
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Call number:
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Cabinet Cc730 /1.1
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Map title:
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Recens edita totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali siti
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Place of Publication:
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August. Vind. [Augsburg]
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Publication date:
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[ca. 1730]
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Map size height:
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49.9 cm.
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Map size width:
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58.3 cm.
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Item description:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Geographical description:
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Map of northeastern North America including present-day Maine to Virginia. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude and longitude, sea banks, compass rose, scale, location of "Lake Irocoisi" (Lake Champlain). Decorative inset shows view of New York City, or New Amsterdam, with ships, fortifications, churches, dwellings, wharfs. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key below. The inset is decorated with black men [slaves?] carrying fish, wood, gold, and barrels up to mythological figures (Mercury, god of commerce, carrying a caduceus and Mars, god of war, holding an olive branch) who give olive branch and map to British king. Other details include British royal coat of arms. Decorative elements also include animals and representations of two native American villages.
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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This map is one in a series of maps produced by Jansson-Visscher showing part of the northeast coast of North America. Variations of the first Jansson-Visscher map, first published ca. 1650, appeared in publications over a 100-year period.
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References:
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Cf. McCorkle, B.B. New England in Early Printed Maps, 730.5
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Normalized date:
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1730
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Creator:
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Matthäus Seutter
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