A New Map of Virginia, Maryland, and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania

Artist/Maker
Browne, Christopher __Cartographer ||Senex, John __Cartographer
Place Made
London Great Britain
Date Made
1719
Medium
ink –paper
Accession Number
5914.4
Description
In 1685 Christopher Browne published this double-folio sized map of the Chesapeake Bay region. in 1719 John Senex updated Browne’s plate. Little inland settlement had occurred during the intervening three decades and so Senex’s revisions were relatively minor. The Browne-Senex map was commercially very successful and was one of the best known views of the Chesapeake Bay colonies during the early eighteenth century.

REFERENCES: Wooldridge, Mapping of Virginia, 88-90

Credit Line
The Anne and Thomas A Gray MESDA Purchase Fund