Map or Atlas
A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland: With Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina
| Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns, roads, meadows, swamps, mountains, islands, bays, lakes, and rivers. Plantations are shown, marked by the plantation owners name. Annotations dot the map, describing the lands, boundaries, and roads, such as a note on one road in North Carolina reading "the Trading Path leading to the Catawbau & Cherokee Indian Nations." The map includes a distance chart near the upper left corner by John Dalrymple. A scene of a tobacco warehouse and wharf, showing European men writing, talking, and smoking, while slaves work or serve drinks, decorates the title cartouche in the lower right corner. |
| Image ID: | 124712 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1755 |
| Creator Name: | Fry, Joshua |
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| State: | Virginia |
| Collection Name: | Map Collection |
| Genre: | Map or Atlas |
| Original Format Type: | prints, fine-art |
| Original Format Number: | H GX863 1751 F |
| Original Dimensions: | On two sheets each 79 x 64 cm |
| One of the most important and influential maps of Virginia in the eighteenth century. It is the first to accurately depict the Blue Ridge Mountains, the first to show the colonial road systems, and the cartouche is one of the earliest printed images of the Virginian tobacco trade. Eight states of the map exist, created between the years 1751 and 1794. The edition of this copy is unknown, though it is mostly likely the fourth or fifth state, dating the map between 1755 and 1775. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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