Nova Virginiae Tabula

Date1634

Maker Petrus Kaerius

Publisher Johannes Janssonius 1588 - 1664

OriginEurope, Netherlands, Amsterdam

MediumLine engraving with period color

DimensionsOH: 6 7/16" x OW: 8 3/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-42

DescriptionUpper margin reads: "VIRGINIA ET FLORIDA./ 639"
Cartouche reads: "NOVA/ VIRGINIAE/ TABULA/ Petrus Kaerius/ Caelavit./ Miliaria Germanica com 15 pro uno gra."
Key reads: "Notarum/ explicatio/ Domus Regum/ Ordinariae Domus/ Lucubrationes/ Anglorum."
Lower left corner: "MARE/ VIRGINICUM"Label TextFrom Gerard Mercator, ' Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatoris à I. Hondio plurimis æneis tabulis auctus et illustratus: denuo recognit, additisque novis delineationibus emendatus' (Amsterodami: Ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii, 1734).

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), pp. 41, #33.ProvenanceBefore 1970, Tenner print shop (Heidelberg, Germany); 1970, purchased by William C. Wooldridge (Norfolk, VA); 2009, purchased by the Virginia Cartographical Society (Norfolk, VA); 2017-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).