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Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Title(s):
America.
Additional Title(s):
To her most sacred majty. Caroline Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, this mapp of America is most humbly dedicated by your Majesties most dutyfull subject Henry Overton
Published/Created:
[London] : [Henry Overton], [after 1727]
Physical Description:
1 map : outline color ; 56.7 x 97.3 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2009 7
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale ca. 1:13,000,000.
Notes:
Inset shows polar projection.
Illustrations include Niagara Falls and beavers and 9 views from DeBry of Native Americans and fishing in Newfoundland.
Dedication by Henry Overton to: Caroline queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland.
Map collectors circle, no. 8, item 92
Subject Terms:
Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737.
Cartouches (Gold Mining)
Cartouches (Slavery)
Maps shelf.
Views, Topographical (Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Ont.)
Western Hemisphere -- Maps.
Western Hemisphere.
Form/Genre:
Maps.
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Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]


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