ECL-Se.2:03/76-81-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Se.2:03/76-81-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto by Henry Popple
Comments
All six maps are catalogued together as they should be treated as a whole.
Key map is in early outline colour and 20 uncoloured sheets joined in 5 sections of 4. This is the first large scale map of North America and the first printed to name all the thirteen original colonies. The map is made up of twenty sections, is on a grand scale, and if actually assembled would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Popple produced the map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, French and Spanish colonies. Little is known of Popple except he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, it is his only known cartographic work. The 20 sheet map is state 3 according to Babinski.
Key map is in early outline colour and 20 uncoloured sheets joined in 5 sections of 4. This is the first large scale map of North America and the first printed to name all the thirteen original colonies. The map is made up of twenty sections, is on a grand scale, and if actually assembled would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Popple produced the map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, French and Spanish colonies. Little is known of Popple except he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, it is his only known cartographic work. The 20 sheet map is state 3 according to Babinski.
Description
Content (place)
North America
Dimensions
height (actual size): 500mm
width (actual size): 510mm
height (actual size): 2375mm
width (actual size): 2465mm
width (actual size): 510mm
height (actual size): 2375mm
width (actual size): 2465mm
Dimension note
500 x 510 is the key map
2375 x 2465 is the whole map
2375 x 2465 is the whole map
Inscription
Written in red pencil on the back: 76 Part 1 - 81 Part 5
Inscription description
On the final map which would represent the lower right corner is the commendation from the 'learned Astronomy in the University of Oxford, Edmund Halley':
'I have seen the abovementioned map, which as far as I am Judge, seems to have been laid down with great accuracy, and to shew the position of the different Provinces & Islands in that part of the Globe more truly than any yet extant'
'I have seen the abovementioned map, which as far as I am Judge, seems to have been laid down with great accuracy, and to shew the position of the different Provinces & Islands in that part of the Globe more truly than any yet extant'
Materials & techniques note
Line engraving
Production
Person
Popple, Henry, ? - 1743 (Mapmaker)
Lempriere, Clement, 1683 - 1746 (Creator)
Toms, William Henry (Engraver)
Baron, Bernard, 1696 - 1762 (Engraver)
Seale, Richard William, 1703 - 1762 (Engraver)
Lempriere, Clement, 1683 - 1746 (Creator)
Toms, William Henry (Engraver)
Baron, Bernard, 1696 - 1762 (Engraver)
Seale, Richard William, 1703 - 1762 (Engraver)
Place
London
Date
1733 [-1734]
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Babinski (Henry Popple's 1733 Map of the British Empire in America)
• Cumming: The Southeast in Early Maps (no.216)
• McCorkle: New England in Early Printed Maps (no. 733.2)
• Schwartz & Ehrenberg (pp.151-152)
• Pritchard & Taliaferro (no.24)
• Cumming: The Southeast in Early Maps (no.216)
• McCorkle: New England in Early Printed Maps (no. 733.2)
• Schwartz & Ehrenberg (pp.151-152)
• Pritchard & Taliaferro (no.24)