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Virginia

Date1795
Maker
OriginAmerica, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
MediumBlack and white line engraving
DimensionsOH: 6 1/2" x OW: 8"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2017-151
DescriptionImprint in upper left corner: "VIRGINIA"
Upper right corner: "Lon. W. fom Philad.a"Label TextThis map of Virginia was originally published in Joseph T Scott's "United States Gazeteer."

William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #173, pp. 191.


ProvenanceBefore 2005, Jane Mebus (Philadelphia, PA); 2005, 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).