Genre

Map

Featured Items

Detail of a hand colored manuscript map shows flags and place names along a coastal region.

[Early representation of Newfoundland, Lower California, the Amazon, and the Ladrones]

António Pereira

circa 1546

Detail of an engraved city plan of Queretaro shows numbered blocks in the city layout.

Ordenanza que para la division de la m. noble y leal ciudad de Santiago de Queretaro en cuarteles menores, creacion de alcaldes de ellos, y reglas para su gobierno.

1796

Detail from an engraved, hand colored map shows vivid illustrations of celestial sphere with their constellations and zodiac signs around the sun. Labels in Dutch read "Taurus," "Orion," and "Saittarius."

The sea-atlas or the watter-world

Hendrick Doncker

1626-1699

Detail of an engraved, hand colored map shows naval warfare, labels over "York River" and "York Town," and red and yellow details.

To his Excellency Gen Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed…

Sebastian Blauman

1782

Detail of a hand colored, engraved map of Boston, Massachusetts shows details such as "Boston Harbor," "Mill Pond," and "Charles's Wharf." Pink, green, and blue colors help differentiate geographical features.

A plan of Boston, and its environs,...

Richard Williams

1776

Detail of a hand colored manuscript estate plan shows a large compass rose and trees on the estate.

[Estate plan of 300 acres of land near Holetown, Barbados]

John Hapcott

1646

Americae et Proximar Regionum Orae Descriptio

Giovanni Battista Mazza

1589

Detail of an engraved map of northeastern North America shows "Maryland," "Virginia," and other labels in English for forts and bodies of water.

[A new chart of the English Empire in North America]

Cyprian Southack

1717

engraved and hand-colored map of northeastern North America including present-day Maine to Virginia

Map of the Month

Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septenrionali…, 1730

November 26

detail of cartouche of a map of northeastern North America

Lecture

Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches

Thursday, December 12 at 6:30pm

Detail from: Figure des Brisilians. [Rouen, 1551]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.

Fellow's Talk

Un certain simulacre de la verité: Performances and Performative Readings in the Figure des Brisilians (1551)

Wednesday, April 5 at 4:00pm

Image from: Tovar Codex-El modo de baylar de los Mexicanos. 17a y última del primer tratado. [Juan de Tovar 1585]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.

Workshop

Visual Thinking in the Archive: Mesoamerican Codices at the JCB

Thursday, April 19 at 2:30pm

Map of the interior of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia

Map Talk: A Conversation with Maps at the JCB

Winter 2010

Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600-1860

Fall 2013

New Acquisitions

Strike a Map from that List!

April 11

group of people standing around a map measuring over 14 feet long

A Snapshot of Cartographic Collaboration

June 13