Antique Virginia Map Blaeu c.1642 – Jamestown, Powhatan, Chesapeake

Name: Antique Virginia Map Blaeu c.1642 – Jamestown, Powhatan, Chesapeake
Brand: Blaeu
SKU: HP-083
Price: 8115 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1642
Maker: Blaeu
Kind: Maps
Size: 50 × 59 cm (19.7 × 23.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with age-related toning. Original center fold as issued. Light discoloration and minor wear to the margins, consistent with age. Paper remains strong and stable. A well-preserved and attractive impression.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Maryland, Virginia
Reference: HP-083

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay region, a map titled "Nova Virginiae Tabula", published by Willem Blaeu in his atlas Toonneel des Aerdrycx around 1640 to 1642. It is an original copper engraving with hand color, based on the survey work of Captain John Smith.

The Chesapeake is the center of the composition, with the rivers of the Tidewater drawn in detail and carrying English and native place names, among them Jamestown on the James River. Rows of mountains in pictorial relief fill the interior, and the Atlantic coast and the open "Mare Virginicum" appear at the lower left with a compass rose. At the upper left a framed vignette shows the court of the Powhatan chief, a seated figure under a canopy among his attendants, with the heading "Sceptri Regis Powhatan", and at the right stands a tall native figure with a bow, beside a cartouche and a crowned coat of arms. A scale cartouche sits at the bottom center.

The map is of the English colony in its early years, with the Powhatan territories marked as the Smith map recorded them.

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