Pascaerte van West Indien Van de Caribes tot aen de Golfo van Mexico

Date1681

Engraver Theunis Jacobsz Lootsman ca. 1632 -1679

Publisher Jacob Jacobsz Lootsman

OriginEurope, Netherlands, Amsterdam

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsTo neat lines: 17" X 21 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-65

DescriptionCartouche reads: "Pacaerte van/ WEST INDIEN/ Van de Caribes tot aen de Golfo/ van Mexico/ 't Amsterdam./ by Theunis Iacobsz op 't water/ inde Lootsman."Label TextTheunis Jacobsz engraved this map based on the Willem Bleau's 'West Indianische Paskaert (c. 1630) shortly before his death at which his business passed to his widow and sons. His son Jacob published this map beginning in 1666 in the atlas 'Nieuwe Water-Werelt, Ofte Zee-Atlas.' This map was included until 1681, when a new plate was issued.

See Philip Burden, "The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps" (Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications, 1996), #299, p. 383.

This copy published in William C. Wooldridge, Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #54, pp.60-61.ProvenanceBefore 2003, Martayan Lan Augustyn (New York, NY); 2003, 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).