Object Details
Artist
Johann Baptista Homann, 1664 – 1724
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Map of Louisiana shows the Eastern part of the United States up to Canada; different colors are used for Louisiana (green), Eastern States (yellow), New Mexico (pink) and Canada (pink). On upper left corner, title of map embellished with an allegorical figure; below view of Niagara Falls. In lower right corner, a vignette with the coat-of-arms of Lns. Gall Societatis Indiae Occidentalis and below and Indian man and woman with a bull. (OPB '59)
Credit Line
Gift of Milton Einstein
Date
after 1718
Accession Number
1959-49-198
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
ephemera
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
Medium
Etching and engraving, hand-colored, on white laid paper
Dimensions
50 x 59.2 cm (19 11/16 x 23 5/16 in.)
made in
Germany
place depicted
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1959-49-198