print;
map
- Museum number
- G,8.172
- Title
- Object: New England
- Description
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John Smith's map of New England; at top left a portrait of Smith, half length, to the right, in oval frame with emblems, six lines of verse below; the map decorated with pictorial trees, settlements, and animals, ships and a sea monster in the water; at bottom left 'Cape James' and 'Stuards Bay', following the coast up past 'Cape Anna', 'Harrington Bay' and 'Cape Elizabeth' up to 'Pembrocks Bay' and 'Gunnells Ils'; with scale rule, compass rose, and coat of arms; second state with altered publication details. 1616
Engraving
- Production date
- 1616
- Dimensions
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Height: 299 millimetres
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Width: 351 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a note on Crowle's extra-illustrated Pennant see G,1.1
Hind speculates that the first state of this map was intended for Smith's 'Description of New England', but it does not appear in any known copy of the work. This second state appears in Smith's 'Generall Historie of Virginia' from 1624 and 1632, and later in the 'True Travels of John Smith' from 1630.
Franken wrongly attributes the portrait to Crispin the younger, and does not connect it with the map.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1811
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- G,8.172
