Virginie Partie Pensilvanie

Date1760

Maker Anonymous

Probably by Georg Christoph Kilian

MediumLine engraving on laid paper

DimensionsOH: 3 3/8" x OW: 13 5/16"

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Barry, III, Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad M. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Johnson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moorman, IV, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Roberts.

Object number2017-223

DescriptionTop left: "VIRGINIE"
Bottom right: "PARTIE PENSILVANIE"Label TextThe map depicts the Ohio River with "Virginia" and "Partie Pensilvanie" labeled. It was originally published in the 1760 German book "Americanische Urquelle derer innerlichen Kriege des verdrangten Deutschlands nach denen wharhaften Umstanden und mit der genauesten Umparthenlichkeit nebst allen sur Erlauterung einschlagenden Nachricten des Verhaltnusses der English und Fransosischen Handlung historisch verfasset durch C.F.v.d. H[eiden]"

This map published in William C. Wooldridge, “Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War” (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #127, pp. 135-137.ProvenanceBefore 2000, Richard B. Arkway (New York, NY); 2000, purchased by William C. Wooldridge (Norfolk, VA); 2009, purchased by the Virginia Cartographical Society (Norfolk, VA); 2017-present, given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).