A New and/ ACCURATE MAP/ of VIRGINIA &/ MARYLAND...
Date1752
Maker
Emanuel Bowen
(ca. 1694 - 1767)
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white line engraving
DimensionsOH: 14 1/4" x OW: 10"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2017-100
DescriptionThe lower right cartouche reads: "A New and/ ACCURATE MAP/ of VIRGINIA &/ MARYLAND/ Laid Down/ from Surveys and/ Regulated by/ Aston.l Observat.ns/ By Eman. Bowen."Label TextThe first state of this map was printed in 1747. A reference to this map was included in Bowen's "A Complete Atlas or Distinct View of the Known World" suggesting that it was published by William Innys.
This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #88, p. 90.