Virginia, Maryland & Carolina Map 1730 Regional Print - Williamsburg, Annapolis, Charleston

Johann Baptist Homann's Nuremberg workshop issued this later state of its map of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina around 1730, identifiable by the addition of "Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majest." to the cartouche, recording the imperial printing privilege Charles VI had granted the firm, which by this date had passed operational control to Homann's heirs following his death in 1724. The workshop remained Germany's leading map publisher, its plates prized for combining decorative engraving with genuinely useful colonial detail rather than ornament alone. This impression is hand-colored in the firm's characteristic bright wash and covers the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland together with Carolina, at a point when Palatine German immigration into these colonies, the very audience the map was designed to attract, had become a well-established annual pattern rather than a novelty.

Germantown, recorded here as Teutsche Statt, still marks the German settlement at the headwaters of the Rappahannock River, while Williamsburg continues to anchor Virginia's government and Annapolis Maryland's, across the Chesapeake Bay. Charleston remains Carolina's principal port, the colony still undivided into North and South on this plate. The interior carries a scatter of early Carolina counties and native place names, and the map's western edge still swells Lake Erie to an exaggerated size beside a stylized Florida coast. New Jersey continues to appear split into its East and West divisions, a detail Homann's workshop never updated despite the colony's reunification decades earlier.

This later Homann state suits a gift for German-American Chesapeake or Carolina families tracing an immigrant ancestor, or a collector wanting to compare early and late states of the same historic plate. The store also stocks the earlier circa-1720 printing of this map, issued before Homann secured his imperial privilege and lacking the additional cartouche text found here; side by side, the two states trace the workshop's own publishing history as much as the colonies they depict. Offered unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact print to a large-format piece for a study or living room wall.