Virginia, Maryland & Carolina

Johann Baptist Homann (1664 - 1724)

Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae

Nuremberg, Germany, 1714–1730

Hand-colored engraving 

Copperplate engraving, hand-colored

Sheet Dimensions: 20.25 x 24.25 in.

Framed Dimensions: 31.75 x 34.75 in. 

Johann Baptist Homann’s hand-colored engraved map Virginia Marylandia et Carolina… was first published in a 1714 atlas, and was re-published numerous times thereafter. The map depicts Homann’s interpretation of the American colonies as they existed in the early part of the 18th century. The geographical range extends south from Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey to South Carolina; and west to Lake Erie and the Appalachian mountains. Important cities and towns are marked in red: Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania; what is simply called “Carolina,” on the Cape Fear River in Carolina; and “Germantown/Teutsche Statt,” in Virginia. Florida, which belonged to Spain at the time, spans the western edge of the map.