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Long Iland Sirvaide

PrinterPrinted by Meriden Gravure Company American, 1888 - 1977

After a work byAfter a work by Robert Ryder English, active 1674 - 1679

Date1949

MediumCollotype; ink on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 23 5/8 x 31 1/2in. (60 x 80cm)
Sheet (height x width): 25 1/4 x 33 1/8in. (64.1 x 84.1cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionReproduction of a seventeenth-century map of Long Island Sound, with the shoreline of Connecticut to the north, the end of Long Island to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and parts of New York and New Jersey to the west. Around Staten Island, water depth is given. Settlements, mostly along the coast and on Long Island, are labeled and marked with little sketches of houses. The other names mark islands and other natural features. The map is decorated with a 32-point compass and north arrow at the top, a quarter-compass in the lower right, and a flower-adorned scale marker.

Object number2012.312.200

InscribedRecto, bottom center, originally handwritten in black ink and reprinted in black ink: "Long Island Siruaide By Robartte Ryder"

Bottom left, printed in black ink: "From the manuscript original (drawn about 1675) / in the John Carter Brown Library, 1949"

Bottom right, printed in black ink: "Reproduced in Collotype by The Meriden Gravure Company"NotesCartographic Note: Scale: 5 inches equals 20 miles

Subject Note: Robert Ryder's Long Island Sirveide is the first map of Long Island Sound made by an Englishman after the English took over New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1667.

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