Museum Object Number1969.2783 |
Map (Collotype)
Facsimile of "The Herrman Map/ of/ VIRGINIA & MARYLAND/ London, 1673"
Prints and Maps
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
Meriden Gravure Company (Printer)
Augustin Herrman (Cartographer and publisher)
John Seller (Mapseller)
c. 1892c. 1605
c.19761686
Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
1967
1. Inscription; Lower left on bottom left sheet; VIRGINIA/ AND MARYLAND/ As it is Planted and/ Inhabited this present/ Year 1670 Surveyed and/ Exactly Drawne by the/ Only Labour & Endeavour/ of/ Augustin Herrman/ Bohemiensis
2. Inscription ; Bottom left on bottom left sheet; Published by Authority of his Ma.\ties/ Royall Licence and particuler Priviledge/ to Aug. Herman and Thomas Within=brook/ his Assignee for fourteen yeares form the/ year of our lord 1673
3. Inscription; Lower left on bottom right sheet; Sold by John Seller, Hydrographer to the/ King at his Shop in Exchag\e ally in Cornhill./ London.
4. Inscription; Lower left on bottom right sheet; A facsimile of the original map in the John Carter/ Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island,/ 1967"
5. Inscription; Bottom right on bottom right sheet; Reproduced in Collotype by the Meriden Gravure Company
Armorial device
Ink; Paper (wove)
Collotype
On four, unjoined sheets.
16.08 (H) , 19.1 (W) , 18.8 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)
40.85 (H) , 48.5 (W) , 18.8 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)
Measurements of bottom right sheet. OH at right. OW at bottom.
Meriden Gravure Company
1967
Reproduction
Text available soon.