Virginia

Date1678

Maker Johann Christoph Beer

After work by Pierre Duval

OriginEurope, Germany, Nuremberg

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsOverall: OH: 4 3/4" x OW: 5"; To neat lines: 3 7/8" x 4 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-34

DescriptionUpper margin: "VIR GINIA et Insulae BERMVDES"
In oval: "VIRGINIA."
Label TextThis map is a close copy of Pierre Duval's "Carte de la Virginie" (2017-33) that appeared in Johann Christoph Beer's Dutch version of the atlas "Le Monde Terrestre." The cartographic information presented in this small map were derived from the important 1606 Mercator-Hondius (Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum nova Descriptio, 1606) map of the southeastern coast of North America. Bermuda is included as an inset map suspended, banner-like, from a longitudinal marker.

This copy published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #19, p. 24-25.