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Map Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

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Title

  • Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

Summary

  • "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30 years produced maps for use by Dutch mercantile and military shipping. He was a business partner of Joan Blaeu, one of the most important map and atlas publishers of the day. Vinckeboons drew a series of 200 manuscript maps that were used in the production of atlases, including Blaeu's Atlas Maior. This 1639 pen-and-ink and watercolor map shows Manhattan Island as it appeared some 25 years after the establishment of the Dutch fur trading settlement known as New Amsterdam (present-day New York City). Also shown are Staten Island, Coney Island, and the North (Hudson) River. The numbered index at the lower right indicates the names of farms and buildings and their owners. The letters in the index indicate the locations of Fort Amsterdam, three mills, and the slave quarter of the settlement. The map was once part of a manuscript atlas belonging to the Dutch firm of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, which published sea atlases and navigational handbooks for over two centuries. With the demise of the firm, the atlas was acquired and broken up by the Amsterdam book dealer Frederik Muller, who in 1887 sold 13 maps from the atlas attributed to Vinckeboons to the collector and bibliographer Henry Harrisse. This map is part of the Henry Harrisse Collection in the Library of Congress." World Digital Library.

Names

  • Vinckeboons, Joan.
  • Library of Congress.

Created / Published

  • 1639.

Headings

  • -  Real property--New York (State)--New York--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Real property--New York Region--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  New York (N.Y.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  New York Region--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  United States--New York (State)--Manhattan (New York)
  • -  United States--New York (State)--New York
  • -  United States--New York Region

Notes

  • -  Covers New York City region.
  • -  Depths shown by soundings.
  • -  Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps of New-Netherland and Manhattan drawn on the spot by Joan Vingboons in 1639."
  • -  Includes index of buildings with householders' names.
  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
  • -  Pictorial map showing buildings and points of interest.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Vault

Medium

  • 1 map : col. ; 45 x 67 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3291.S12 coll .H3

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 97683586

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Vinckeboons, Joan, and Library Of Congress. Manatvs gelegen op de Noot sic Riuier. 1670. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/97683586/.

APA citation style:

Vinckeboons, J. & Library Of Congress. (1670) Manatvs gelegen op de Noot sic Riuier. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/97683586/.

MLA citation style:

Vinckeboons, Joan, and Library Of Congress. Manatvs gelegen op de Noot sic Riuier. 1670. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/97683586/>.