Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Popple, Henry, -1743

Title:

A map of the British Empire in America : with the French, Spanish and Hollandish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; I. Condet s.

Alternate Title(s):

Caption title: Carte particuliére de l'Amérique septentrionale

Published / Created:

At Amsterdam : Printed for I. Covens and C. Mortier, [ca. 1737]

Physical Description:

1 map ; 48 x 47 cm, on sheet 54 x 64 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2010 3k
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Related Content:

View catalog record for the full four-sheet map (Cóvens and Mortier, 1737) http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12306652

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Scale:

Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000] -- (W 107°--W 47°/N 55°--N 5°).

Notes:

Popple's map, originally published in 20 sheets by S. Harding and W.H. Toms, in 1733, was the first large scale map of North America.

Key map for the larger four-sheet map of the same title, published by Cóvens and Mortier in 1737 (for dating, see Cumming and Moreland).

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps (3rd ed.), page 234

Moreland, C. Antique maps, page 295

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

Title and imprint from cartouche at bottom left.

Relief shown pictorially.

Insets: Fall of Niagara -- Mexico -- Québec -- New York -- Mexico -- Placentia -- Annapolis Royal -- Boston -- New York -- Charlestown -- Bermuda -- S. Augustine -- Providence -- Havana -- S. Jago -- Kingston -- Port Antonio -- Port Royal in Martinica -- Barbados -- Antigua -- Cartagène -- Porto Bello.

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Housed with the larger four-sheet map, for which it serves as key (see link provided herewith).

Subject Terms:

North America -- Maps.

Form/Genre:

Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1737. | Maps -- North America.

Contributors:

Condet, Johannes, 1711–1781, engraver. | Cóvens et Mortier, publisher.