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date: label: Date made
content: ca 1666
label: Date made
content: ca 1655
name: label: maker
content: Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz
notes: label: Description
content: This Dutch map, made about 1655, shows eastern North America from what is now Canada to Virginia. Illustrations within the map include bears, beaver, deer, foxes, turkeys, and rabbits, as well as Indian villages on land, and Indians in boats at sea. The lower right corner of the map contains an inset of Nieuw Amsterdam, the third known engraved view of that city which is now New York. The view is framed by a decorative cartouche with fruits and a crest and flanked by Indian figures on either side. This is the second version or state of this map, and number 5 of a series identified by historians as the Jansson-Visscher maps. Fort Kasimier has been added on the Delaware River to recognize the Dutch capture of the fort in 1655.
label: Description
content: Many maps of the Americas were produced during the period of exploration and colonial settlement in the 17th century. The period between 1630 and 1700 is known as the golden age of Dutch cartography, as the Netherlands was a center for map publishing as well as for the country's maritime enterprise that depended on maps and charts.
label: Description
content: The Museum's map collection includes a number of important examples received as a gift from Mabel Brady Garvan, who, with her husband Francis P. Garvan, built an important collection of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts that is now at the Yale University Art Gallery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands
topic: label: Subject
content: Exploration and Discovery
label: Subject
content: Bears
label: Subject
content: Rabbits
label: Subject
content: Turkeys
label: Subject
content: Wild Animals
label: Subject
content: Maps
label: Subject
content: Indians
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Art
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: The Mapping of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24319
label: accession number
content: 251493
label: catalog number
content: 24319
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: map
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 3/4 in x 23 in; 50.165 cm x 58.42 cm