Map [Map of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico]
About this Item
Title
- [Map of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico]
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 depicts the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from western Florida to the area around present-day Tampico, Mexico. Included are the coastline, coastal features, rivers, streams, other bodies of water, and numerous rhumb lines. A body of water, "Mar Pequeno," might possibly designate Mobile Bay or Lake Pontchartrain. Geographic names appear in Spanish. 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
- - Gulf Coast (Fla.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- - Gulf Coast (Mexico)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- - Mexico--Gulf Coast
- - United States--Florida--Gulf Coast
Notes
- - Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection.
- - Copy annotated in pencil in upper right margin.
- - Covers the Gulf Coast extending from St. Luis de Tampico to Arecifo showing coastal features, rivers, and streams.
- - Depths shown by soundings.
- - 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.
- - LC Luso-Hispanic world, 82
- - Conserved; 04-82-023.1a 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
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2003623404
Online Format
- image