Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703

Title:

A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

Alternate Title(s):

English plantations in America

Published / Created:

London : Robert Morden, at the Atlas, in Cornhill, nere the Royal Exchange, and William Berry, at the Globe, between York House and the New Exchange in the Strand, London, [ca. 1677]

Physical Description:

1 map : engraving ; 42 x 52 cm

Holdings:

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

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Scale:

Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000].

Notes:

Relief shown pictorially.

Inset: [Northern Europe and American hemisphere].

The second state of this map, ca. 1677, includes "The Rickohockans" to the west of the Applachians, and "Felis Lake" next to the Royal Arms. See: Burden.

Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 431

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps (3rd ed.), 73

BAC: British Art Center copy on sheet 48 x 60 cm. Hand-colored.

Exhibition History:

Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

Subject Terms:

United States -- Maps. | Plantations -- United States -- Maps. | West Indies -- Maps. | Plantations -- West Indies -- Maps.

Form/Genre:

Maps -- United States. | Maps -- West Indies. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1677.

Contributors:

Berry, William, active 1680, cartographer.