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Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula...

Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz · ca 1666 · paper (overall material)

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This Dutch map, made about 1655, shows eastern North America from what is now Canada to Virginia. Illustrations within the map include bears, beaver, deer, foxes, turkeys, and rabbits, as well as Indian villages on land, and Indians in boats at sea. The lower right corner of the map contains an inset of Nieuw Amsterdam, the third known engraved view of that city which is now New York. The view is framed by a decorative cartouche with fruits and a crest and flanked by Indian figures on either side. This is the second version or state of this map, and number 5 of a series identified by historians as the Jansson-Visscher maps. Fort Kasimier has been added on the Delaware River to recognize the Dutch capture of the fort in 1655.

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Credit lineNovi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula.... ca 1666. Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz. National Museum of American History, Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan. CC0.

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