ECL-Se.2:03/82-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Se.2:03/82-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania Maryland, Virginia and Carolina....
Comments
Early outline colour
Wtih manuscript title to the verso of the map. This famous map is known as the 'Beaver Map' after the scene on the map displaying beavers building a dam with Niagara Falls in the background. It is one of the first important maps of the eighteenth century to reflect the conflict between the British and French desires for land in North America. It is published just two years after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht which saw France ceding Nova Scotia, claim to Hudson Bay and much of Newfoundland to the British. From 'The World Described; or a New and Correct Sett of Maps...'
Wtih manuscript title to the verso of the map. This famous map is known as the 'Beaver Map' after the scene on the map displaying beavers building a dam with Niagara Falls in the background. It is one of the first important maps of the eighteenth century to reflect the conflict between the British and French desires for land in North America. It is published just two years after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht which saw France ceding Nova Scotia, claim to Hudson Bay and much of Newfoundland to the British. From 'The World Described; or a New and Correct Sett of Maps...'
Description
Content (place)
North America
Dimensions
height (actual size): 1070mm
width (actual size): 640mm
width (actual size): 640mm
Inscription
Written in red pencil on the back: British Dominions in N. America 82
Written in ink on the back: 101 British Dominions in N. America
Written in pencil on the back: No. 8
Written in ink on the back: 101 British Dominions in N. America
Written in pencil on the back: No. 8
Materials & techniques note
Line engraving
Production
Person
Place
London
Date
1715
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Schwartz & Ehrenberg (p.135)
• Cumming: The Southeast in Early Maps (# 158)
• McCorkle: New England in Early Printed Maps (715.1)
• Stevens & Tree (55)
• Kershaw (#331, state A)
• Cumming: The Southeast in Early Maps (# 158)
• McCorkle: New England in Early Printed Maps (715.1)
• Stevens & Tree (55)
• Kershaw (#331, state A)