{"product_id":"virginia-and-maryland-map-1747-survey-print-williamsburg-annapolis-norfolk","title":"Virginia \u0026 Maryland Map 1747 Survey Print - Williamsburg, Annapolis, Norfolk","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Bowen produced this detailed map of Virginia and Maryland for his Complete System of Geography, this example identifiable as the first state of the plate by the number \"No. 95\" in the lower left margin. Bowen was among the most accomplished engravers working in London at the time, later appointed mapmaker to both George II of England and Louis XV of France, and his geographies were prized for combining scholarly text with carefully engraved plates rather than the more decorative but less precise work of some contemporaries. This map traces its cartographic lineage back to Augustine Herrman's landmark 1673 survey of the Chesapeake, likely transmitted through Herman Moll's 1729 map of the region, and it renders Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and parts of New Jersey and North Carolina with unusual density of detail for a mid-century London production, at a moment when Virginia and Maryland's tobacco economy was near its colonial peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliamsburg is recorded as Virginia's capital, and Annapolis performs the same role for Maryland on the opposite shore of the Chesapeake Bay, itself drawn with a fine compass rose set just to its west. Norfolk appears on the lower James River as one of Virginia's busiest tidewater ports. The map's most distinctive feature is cartographic rather than a single place: Bowen marks \"Indian Houses and Plantations\" with tepee-like symbols and distinguishes them from \"English Plantations\" shown as small houses, a rare and explicit visual record of the colonial settlement patterns and Native displacement then underway across the Tidewater and Eastern Shore. The coastline itself is intricately engraved with shoals picked out along the bay's approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is a considered gift for a Virginia or Maryland family tracing tidewater roots back to the colonial tobacco era, or for a collector building a set of 18th-century Chesapeake surveys. The store's other Chesapeake-area maps, including Speed's 1676 edition and the London Magazine's 1757 Kitchin plate, cover the same coastline at different decades; this 1747 Bowen edition is distinguished by its rare Indian-versus-English plantation symbols and its Complete System of Geography pedigree, giving it a documentary character the other editions lack. It is offered unframed across a full range of sizes, from a compact desk print through to a large-format piece for a study or office wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978117451,"sku":"SKU1923-16x20","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978150219,"sku":"SKU1923-A2","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978182987,"sku":"SKU1923-18x24","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978215755,"sku":"SKU1923-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978248523,"sku":"SKU1923-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978281291,"sku":"SKU1923-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978314059,"sku":"SKU1923-70x100","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978346827,"sku":"SKU1923-75x100","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58531978379595,"sku":"SKU1923-A0","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1923.jpg?v=1789839587","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/virginia-and-maryland-map-1747-survey-print-williamsburg-annapolis-norfolk","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}