CARTE/ DE LA VIRGINIE ET/ DE MARYLAND/Dressee sur la grande carte Angloise de M.rs Josue/ Fry et Pierre Jefferson,/ Par le S.r Robert de Vaugondy Geographe/ ordinaire du Roi./ Avec Privilege/ 1755
Date1757
Cartographer
Robert de Vaugondy (1686-1766)
After work by
Joshua Fry (1700-1754)
After work by
Peter Jefferson (1708-1757)
Engraver
Elizabeth Haussard
OriginEurope, France, Paris
MediumLine engraving with period color
DimensionsOH: 21" x OW: 27 1/2"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2017-123
DescriptionThe cartouche reads: "CARTE/ DE LA VIRGINIE ET/ DE MARYLAND/Dressee sur la grande carte Angloise de M.rs Josue/ Fry et Pierre Jefferson,/ Par le S.r Robert de Vaugondy Geographe/ ordinaire du Roi./ Avec Privilege/ 1755"The scale reads: "ECHELLE/ Milles pas geometriques de 60 au degre/ Lieues marines d'Angleterre de 20 au degre/ Milles de 69 au degre"
Label TextThe French version of the Fry-Jefferson map was actually published sometime around 1757. This is the first state of five. It is distinguished by the appearance of the southwestern "Limities du Lord Fairfax."
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), pp. 113, #104.