Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Mountserrat Island 1673.
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Accession Number:
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8189
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File Name:
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8189-30
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Call number:
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Cabinet Blathwayt 30
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Map title:
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Mountserrat Island 1673.
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Publication date:
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1673
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Map size height:
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56.3 cm.
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Map size width:
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68.2 cm.
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Item description:
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manuscript
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Geographical description:
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Map of Montserrat Island in a series of coastal profiles showing the land as views from the sea. Items in the image are numbered and lettered for identification in extensive keys at corner of the map. Cartographic elements include locations of settlements, bays, and dwellings,compass rose, and topographical details. Decorative elements include ships, women or mermaids holding the flags of Ireland, Scotland, and England, figure of Pan playing pipes, a heraldic creature taking a sight with a navigational instrument [cross-staff?], and men carrying a bundle of reeds [sugar canes?].
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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No separate or detailed map of Montserrat was published during the seventeenth or eighteenth century, making this map of particular interest. The various figures on the map suggest that before the importation of slaves from Africa the labor was largely Irish peasants and Scottish prisoners of war. The two figures carrying the sugar cane are white and the three nationalities that comprised the population are represented by their flags. The draftsman is unknown.The Blathwayt Atlas is a collection of 48 maps assembled between 1680 and 1685 as a reference atlas for the Office of Trade and Plantations, compiled by William Blathwayt, Secretary to the Lords of Trade and Plantations.
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References:
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Black, J.D., ed. Blathwayt Atlas, vol. II, p. 175-179
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Geographic Area:
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Caribbean
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Normalized date:
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1673
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