Map or Atlas
A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto
| This map of North America shows settlements, rivers, lakes, Native American land, trade winds, and numerous topographical features such as forests and mountains. Popple depicts the claims of the English, French and Spanish, though the desire to expand English territory is clear in this copy, as the boarders of Virginia and the Carolinas are extended far to the west, and a note near the middle of Florida reads "The southward boundary of Carolina by the last charter." Another note, far outside the official boundaries of the colonies, to the west of South Carolina reads "a fit place for an English factory." The map includes four inset illustrations of Niagara Falls, Mexico City, Quebec, and New York, and sixteen small inset maps along the right side showing various ports and Islands. Illustrations of ships dot the Ocean, and an illustrated scene of a naval battle, entitled "Sr. Cha. Wager's Engagement," appears just above South America. The title cartouche is bordered by three Native Americans, one man and two women. The man holds a bow, one woman lounges on a boulder next to two monkeys and an alligator, the other woman looks up at the first and holds a child to her. She gestures to a distant scene of a ship and European men landing on the shore. |
| Image ID: | 123813 |
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| Creation Date: | 1733 |
| Creator Name: | Popple, Henry |
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| Collection Name: | Map Collection |
| Genre: | Map or Atlas |
| Original Format Type: | prints, fine-art |
| Original Format Number: | H GX81 1733 P |
| Original Dimensions: | 49 x 48 cm., on sheet 52 x 51 cm |
| This map is the index map to Popple's larger, and famous, 20 sheet map of the same name. It is one of the most important maps of the American colonies, as it was the first English map to name all the original thirteen colonies, and the first to include Georgia. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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