[Map of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico]
Vinckeboons, Joan.
cartographic
map
dcu
1639
monographic
[1639?]
dut
1 ms. map : col., paper backing ; 50 x 71 cm.
"Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30 years produced maps for use by Dutch mercantile and military shipping. He was a business partner of Joan Blaeu, one of the most important map and atlas publishers of the day. Vinckeboons drew a series of 200 manuscript maps that were used in the production of atlases, including Blaeu's Atlas Maior. This pen-and-ink and watercolor map from around 1639 depicts the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from western Florida to the area around present-day Tampico, Mexico. Included are the coastline, coastal features, rivers, streams, other bodies of water, and numerous rhumb lines. A body of water, "Mar Pequeno," might possibly designate Mobile Bay or Lake Pontchartrain. Geographic names appear in Spanish. The map was once part of a manuscript atlas belonging to the Dutch firm of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, which published sea atlases and navigational handbooks for over two centuries. With the demise of the firm, the atlas was acquired and broken up by the Amsterdam book dealer Frederik Muller, who in 1887 sold 13 maps from the atlas attributed to Vinckeboons to the collector and bibliographer Henry Harrisse. This map is part of the Henry Harrisse Collection in the Library of Congress." World Digital Library.
Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection.
Copy annotated in pencil in upper right margin.
Covers the Gulf Coast extending from St. Luis de Tampico to Arecifo showing coastal features, rivers, and streams.
Depths shown by soundings.
Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the second volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps Atlantic Coast and California drawn by Joan Vingboons in 1639."
Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Scale [ca. 1:1,650,000].
Gulf Coast (Fla.)
Maps, Manuscript
Early works to 1800
Gulf Coast (Mexico)
Maps, Manuscript
Early works to 1800
Mexico
Gulf Coast
United States
Florida
Gulf Coast
G3291.S12 coll .H3
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3932c.lh000082
[Henry Harrisse collection
v. 2, map 9]
LC Luso-Hispanic world,
82
2003623404
hdl:loc.gmd/g3932c.lh000082
aacr
DLC
030402
20220714104719.0
13145291
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