Object Number 1969.2783

Object Name

Map (Collotype)

Title

Facsimile of "The Herrman Map/ of/ VIRGINIA & MARYLAND/ London, 1673"

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Meriden Gravure Company (Printer)
c. 1892-c.1976

Augustin Herrman (Cartographer and publisher)
c. 1605-1686

John Seller (Mapseller)

Place of Origin

Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

Date

1967

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

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

Subjects

Armorial device

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Collotype

Construction Description

On four, unjoined sheets.

Dimensions (inches)

16.08 (H) , 19.1 (W) , 18.8 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

40.85 (H) , 48.5 (W) , 18.8 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements of bottom right sheet. OH at right. OW at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Meriden Gravure Company

Publication Date

1967

State

Reproduction

Object Description

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