Map of Virginia and Maryland Constructed from the Latest Authorities[,] Published by S. Augustus Mitchell[,] Philadelphia 1831

Date1831

Publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792 - 1868)

After work by Anthony Finley (1790-1840)

Compiler David H. Vance

Engraver James Hamilton Young (fl. 1817 - 1866)

OriginAmerica, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

MediumBlack and white line engraving with period color

DimensionsOH: 17 1/4" x OW: 21 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-179

DescriptionMain title reads: "MAP/ OF/ VIRGINIA/AND/ MARYLAND/ Constructed from the Latest/ AUTHORITIES./ Published by S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, Philadelphia./ 1831."
Lower right margin reads: "J.H. Young"
Label TextThis map of Virginia was published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, who ran one of the most important map firms in the United States during the nineteenth century. When Anthony Finley retired, Mitchell bought the plates from Finley's 1826 atlas and republished them as in a new publication entitled "A New American Atlas" in 1831. This atlas was his first cartographic publication and it established his career as one of America's leading mapsellers. The data tables in the upper left inset are from the 1820 census. The inset in the upper right represents Washington, DC and Georgetown. The map was originally drawn by David H. Vance (D.H. Vance) and engraved by James Hamilton Young (J.H. Young). This map was originally a folding map that was either cut from its bindings or published in Mitchell's "New American Atlas" which was published in folio and as an atlas of folding maps.

This copy was published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #197, pp. 212-216.