NOVI BELGII / NOVAEQUE ANGILAE NEC NON / PARTIS / VIRGINIAE TABULA / multis in locis emendate a / Nicolao Joannis Visschero / Amsterdam, 1659
date: label: date made
content: 1833
notes: label: Description
content: Nicolas Jansz Visscher (1618-1679), an accomplished Dutch cartographer, published an important map of the Dutch lands in North America. This is a copy of that map. The text at bottom center reads “A CORRECT COPY & IMITATION OF THE ORIGINAL DUTCH MAP in the possession of S. CONVERSE, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK. Engraved by THOS STARLING, WILMINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, 1833.” As in the Visscher original (which was actually published in 1655), an inset below the title depicts “NIEUW AMSTERDAM / op t’Eylant Manhattans.”
label: Description
content: This map extends from 37° to 46°10' north latitude and from 297° to 312° longitude measured from west to east.
label: Description
content: Sherman Converse, the one-time owner of the Visscher map, was a Yale graduate who was friendly with Noah Webster and published Webster's first dictionary. Converse moved from New York to Quebec in 1838, returned to the United States around 1844, and died in Boston.
label: Description
content: Ref: Wilberforce Eames, “The First Three Engraved Views of New York,” <i>New York Times</i> (Feb. 16, 1901), p. BR 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317824
label: catalog number
content: 317824
label: accession number
content: 231759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 25 in; 49.53 cm x 63.5 cm