Mapping the Americas – Picturing the World

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Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Captain John Smith was one of the greatest early explorers of the Chesapeake area, a founder and early governor of the Jamestown settlement, and an accomplished surveyor. The importance of his map, like his place in history, is impossible to overstate. The most influential map of the area made in the 17th century, Smith's Virginia is remarkable for its detail of the Chesapeake Bay, which Smith himself explored by longboat. The map's detail is so singularly exact that it became the prototype for most later maps of the region until Augustine Herman's great 1673 map Virginia and Maryland. The indication of a large body of water at the upper right of the map signals a large driving force in the formation of the Virginia colony: the persistent belief that a sea route to Asia lay just beyond the mountains. In 1608 Smith spent some months exploring the Chesapeake Bay and the various rivers that fed into it. The extent of his survey is depicted on the map with crosses on the rivers. A key states, "To the crosses hath been discoverd what beyond is by relation." One year later Smith returned to England after sustaining a serious gunpowder wound to his side; he was never to see Virginia again. Nonetheless, his role was vital in ensuring the success of the Jamestown colony, and his map was instrumental in making the geography surrounding the fragile settlement known to Europeans.
Smith, John
Smith, John
Surveyor
Surveyor
maps (documents)
historical maps
1612
1612
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Early American Maps
Powhatan Indians
Early American Maps
Virginia
Jamestown (Va.)
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Cape Charles (Va.)
Henry, Cape (Va.)
Virginia
Jamestown (Va.)
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Cape Charles (Va.)
Henry, Cape (Va.)
Powhatan Indians
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Virginia
virginia
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Virginia
1612
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Virginia
Jamestown (Va.)
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Cape Charles (Va.)
Henry, Cape (Va.)
Powhatan Indians
Smith, John
Smith, John
Smith, John
London
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Novi Belgii
Danckerts, Justus
1690

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Novi Belgii
Novi Belgii
Novi Belgii
Novi Belgii
This masterful and beautiful map, based on one publisher by Claus Janszoon Visscher in the mid-1650s, was a seminal moment in the cartography of New England and New York. With its inset view of New York it showed educated Europeans what New Amsterdam looked like and also provided them with a remarkably precise idea of its geographic context. Based probably on a prototype by Augustine Hermann, the map was first published by Jan Jansson in 1650, without the view. Visscher brought out his own version around 1654, which included the famous inset view of the town. Taken from Governor's Island, southeast of Manhattan, the view is a somewhat idealized but generally accurate look at New Amsterdam just 25 years or so after its initial settlement. Information about the time when various buildings were erected suggests a probable date for the inset view between autumn 1652 and summer 1653.
Danckerts, Justus
Danckerts, Justus
Cartographer
Cartographer
maps (documents)
historical maps
1690
1690
The Abstract/Description provided for this map is taken from an accompanying gallery schedule.
Early American Maps
Early American Maps
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
New England
New York (State)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
New England
New York (State)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
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New Netherland
New England
New York (State)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Danckerts, Justus
Danckerts, Justus
Danckerts, Justus
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Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
De Lisle, Guillaume
1718

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Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
This is the most famous map by celebrated French cartographer Guillaume De Lisle. The accuracy of De Lisle's cartography accounts for its primacy, as he obtained his information directly from French explorers. One of the first printed maps to name Texas, it was a seminal depiction of the Mississippi that was enormously influential on subsequent cartography of the region. Indeed, Kohl states this is the mother and main source of all later maps of the Mississippi. This map was the first to reflect accurately the routes of Hernando de Soto, Henry de Tonty, and Louis de St. Denis. Because of its accurate information on the Mississippi and its tributaries, this map served throughout the eighteenth century as the prototype for most subsequent renderings of that great river.
De Lisle, Guillaume
De Lisle, Guillaume
Cartographer
Cartographer
maps (documents)
historical maps
Guillaume DeLisle, Quai de l'Horloge
Guillaume DeLisle, Quai de l'Horloge
1718
1718
The Abstract/Description provided for this map is taken from an accompanying gallery schedule.
Early American Maps
Early American Maps
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi River
Mexico, Gulf of
Mobile River (Ala.)
Mobile Bay (Ala.)
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi River
Mexico, Gulf of
Mobile River (Ala.)
Mobile Bay (Ala.)
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Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
carte de la louisiane et du cours du mississipi
1718/01/01
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi
1718
Early American Maps
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi River
Mexico, Gulf of
Mobile River (Ala.)
Mobile Bay (Ala.)
De Lisle, Guillaume
De Lisle, Guillaume
De Lisle, Guillaume
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A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England
Blaskowitz, Charles
1777

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Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England: with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut have been particularly surveyed.
Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England: with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut have been particularly surveyed.
Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England
Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England
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with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut have been particularly surveyed
with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut have been particularly surveyed
This elegant Revolutionary War-era British military map is the most important eighteenth-century chart of Narraganset Bay. Showing both topographical and hydrographical detail, the map was the result of a survey by Charles Blaskowitz, a skilled British military surveyor who was assigned by Samuel Holland in 1764 to chart the coast of Rhode Island to determine if the harbor of Newport could be used as a British naval base. Blaskowitz later seems to have been commissioned by an additional party to survey the area, for the title of his map notes that it was "taken by the order of the principal farmers on Rhode Island." There is some evidence that Blaskowitz was paid by the Rhode Island farmers to create a map for their purposes in 1771, which he then simply redrew, adding the positions of the defensive batteries, and sold to the British in 1777. In either case, this map was published in London by William Faden, the successor of Thomas Jefferys, in that year.
Blaskowitz, Charles
Blaskowitz, Charles
Surveyor
Surveyor
maps (documents)
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historical maps
William Faden
William Faden
1777
1777
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Early American Maps
Early American Maps
New England
Narragansett Bay (R.I.)
Rhode Island
Newport (R.I.)
Connecticut
New England
Narragansett Bay (R.I.)
Rhode Island
Newport (R.I.)
Connecticut
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Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England
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A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England: with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut have been particularly surveyed.
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A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England
1777
Early American Maps
New England
Narragansett Bay (R.I.)
Rhode Island
Newport (R.I.)
Connecticut
Blaskowitz, Charles
Blaskowitz, Charles
Blaskowitz, Charles
London
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As a result of increased travel to the Americas, European maps continued to flourish. English colonial leader John Smith revised White’s map c. 1612, publishing a more accurate view of the Chesapeake area entitled Virginia.

Additional surveys of the land vastly improved the quality of maps depicting all regions of the Americas. Dutch publisher Claus Janszoon Visscher captured the shape of Manhattan c. 1654, and engraver Justus Danckerts incorporated the information into his successful 1673 coastline map, Nova Belgii.

Decades later, French cartographer Guillaume de Lisle highlighted westward expansion within his Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi in 1718.

By the time of the Revolutionary War, cartography had become increasingly realistic, as visible within Charles Blaskowitz’s meticulous study A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England, printed by William Faden in 1777.

A positive trajectory of artistic precision amongst European maps created between 1500 and 1800 emphasizes the quest for scientific accuracy, often in service to a desire for increased measurement and control during this period of imperial colonization.