Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova

Date

2007-02-05T19:50:52Z

Authors

Blaeu, Joan

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Abstract

New Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam.

Description

Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection, Map 6, location: Map Case C, D1.

Keywords

New Belgium Maps, New Netherland Maps, New England Maps

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