Pas-Kaart van de Zee kusten van Niew Nederland anders genaamt Niew York tusschen Renselaars Hoek en de Staaten Hoek
PublisherPublished by
Johannes van Keulen
(Dutch, 1654 - 1715)
Date1687
MediumEngraving; printer's ink and watercolor on laid paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 20 1/8 x 23in. (51.1 x 58.4cm)
Platemark (height x width): 20 3/8 x 23 1/4in. (51.8 x 59.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 21 x 24 3/8in. (53.3 x 61.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2011.501.0
DescriptionNautical chart of Long Island Sound with numerous place-names in Dutch and English along the coastlines. Separate insets show the Connecticut River and the Hudson River. Place names include Hereford (Hartford), Winser (Windsor), Waters Veldt (Wethersfield), and Zee Broeck (Saybrook). The Connecticut River is called the Versche or Fresh River.
Label TextEarly explorers of Connecticut came by sea, and early maps and charts provide great detail about the coast and rivers and not much information about the interior of the future state. Well into the nineteenth century, many people traveled by water and most goods were transported by ships. Although this version of Johannes van Keulen's chart of Long Island Sound and the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers was published in 1687, more than twenty years after New Netherlands was ceded to England by the Dutch, it is based on surveys from the 1660s and shows many Dutch place names side by side with the names of English towns and geographical features.
NotesCartographic Note: Depths shown by soundings.Date Note: This is the second state of the second printed chart of Long Island Sound and the southern New England coast. The first state of this chart was included in the edition of Johannes van Keulen's Zee-Fakkel (or Sea-Atlas), published in 1684. The chart is based on surveys made by the Dutch just before they surrendered New Netherlands to to the English in 1664.
Status
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