Map [Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida]

Title

• [Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida]

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 pen-and-ink and watercolor map from around 1639 shows the Atlantic Coast of the present-day United States from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida. Included are the coastline, coastal features, navigational hazards, rhumb lines, Native American nations and settlements, streams, and a decorative wind rose. Relying on a mixture of contemporary and historical sources, the map concentrates on the English settlements in southern Virginia and the Outer Banks area of present-day North Carolina. 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

Created / Published

• [1639?]

Headings

• -  Coasts--Southern States--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Atlantic coast (North America)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• -  Atlantic coast (North America)--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• -  Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• -  North America--Atlantic coast
• -  United States--Maryland--Chesapeake Bay
• -  United States--Virginia--Chesapeake Bay
• -  United States--Southern States

Notes

• -  Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection.
• -  Copy annotated in pencil in upper right margin.
• -  Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the second volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps Atlantic Coast and California drawn by Joan Vingboons in 1639."
• -  Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
• -  Shows coastal features, Native American nations and settlements, and other geographical entities.
• -  LC Luso-Hispanic world, 817
• -  Conserved; 04-82-023.1d 1982 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda

Medium

• 1 ms. map : col., paper backing ; 50 x 71 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

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3320.lh000817

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2003623403

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2003623403

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