Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Title:
A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and the dutch settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.
Alternate Title(s):
Additional title: Nouvelle carte particulière de l'Amérique ... Caroline Meridionale, la Floride, la Louisiane, la Mexique, le Jucatan, le Guatimala, le Darien & une partie de Cuba
Published / Created:
Amsterdam : Iohn Covens and Cornelius Mortier, [ca. 1737]
Physical Description:
1 map on 6 sheets : outline col. ; each ca. 58 x 53 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2010 3k
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View catalog record for kep map (Cóvens and Mortier, 1737) http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12960303
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale ca. 1:5,250,000. Scales of insets vary. -- (W 107°--W 47°/N 55°--N 5°).
Notes:
Popple's map, originally published in 20 sheets by S. Harding, 1733, was the first large scale map of North America.

Dutch edition of the Popple map.

Four sheets make up the complete large map, each with an additional title above neat line. This is accompanied by a key map, on one sheet, and a sixth sheet depicting plans of harbors and fortresses.

Undated. Published ca. 1737. See Cumming and Moreland.

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps (3rd ed.), page 217

Moreland, C. Antique maps, page 295

List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, page 569

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Includes a seventh sheet, with views of Mexico City, New York, Quebec, and Niagara Falls. The Rumsey copy also includes this seventh sheet.
Subject Terms:
Placentia (N.L.) -- Maps. | Annapolis Royal (N.S.) -- Maps. | Boston Harbor (Mass.) -- Maps. | New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Maps. | Charleston (S.C.) -- Maps. | Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Maps. | New Providence Island (Bahamas) -- Maps. | Havana (Cuba) -- Maps. | Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) -- Maps. | Port Antonio (Jamaica) -- Maps. | Fort-de-France (Martinique) -- Maps. | Barbados -- Maps. | Antigua -- Maps. | Kingston (Jamaica) -- Maps. | Bermuda Islands -- Maps. | Curaçao -- Maps. | Cartagena (Colombia) -- Maps. | Portobelo (Panama) -- Maps. | Views, topographical (Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Ont.) | North America, East of the Mississippi -- Maps.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1737. | Maps -- North America.
Contributors:
Condet, Johannes, 1711–1781, engraver. | Cóvens et Mortier, publisher.