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The Manatus Map is a 1639
city map
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of
New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam ( nl, Nieuw Amsterdam, or ) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial trading ''factory'' gave rise ...
and other
New Netherland settlements
New Netherland (''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch) was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory was the land from the Delmarva Peninsula t ...
surrounding
New York Harbor
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, with
pictorial elements, and bearing the title ''
Manatus on the
North River''. Drafted during the period of
Willem Kieft
Willem Kieft (September 1597 – September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647.
Life and career
Willem Kieft was appointed to the rank of director b ...
's directorship, its authorship disputed. Edward Van Winkle of the Holland Society of New York attributed it to the Dutch cartographer
Johannes Vingboons
Johannes Vingboons (1616/1617 – Amsterdam, 20 July 1670) was a Dutch cartographer and watercolourist.
Biography
Vingboons came from an artistic family. His father David Vinckboons (1576–1632) was a successful painter and, of his five brot ...
, who made many manuscript maps for the West India Company.
According to
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (April 11, 1867 – December 18, 1944) was an American architect. Stokes was a pioneer in social housing who co-authored the 1901 New York tenement house law. For twenty years he worked on ''The Iconography of Manhatt ...
, Vingboons was among several possible creators, and only excludes
Andries Hudde
Andries Hudde (1608–1663) was a landowner and colonial official of New Netherland.
Early life and New Amsterdam
Andries Hudde was born in Kampen, Overijssel in the Netherlands in 1608 to Hendrick Hudde (himself son of the local burgomaster ...
as the likely cartographer, as he was in a different part of the world at the time.
The original drawing is lost and It survives only in two later 17th century copies made in the same studio with slight differences, as noted in
Stokes' ''
The Iconography of Manhattan Island
''The Iconography of Manhattan Island'' is a six volume study of the history of New York City by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, published between 1915 and 1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. The work comprehensively records and documents key events of t ...
''.
One of the copies came from the same collection as the
Castello Plan
The Castello Planofficially entitled ''Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt'' (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland")is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan from an o ...
at
Villa di Castello
The Villa di Castello, near the hills bordering Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, was the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519-1574). The gardens, filled with fountains, statuary, and a grotto, became famous thro ...
, the other from a
Henry Harrisse
Henry Harrisse (May 28, 1829 – May 13, 1910) was a writer, lawyer, art critic, and American historian who authored books on the discovery of America and geographic representations of the New World.
Biography
Henry Harrisse was born Hen ...
donation to the
Library of Congress
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. The Harrisse copy is twenty-six and five-eighth inches by eighteen and one-fourth inches in size and shows Manhattan Island with Westchester and Bronx Counties on the North; a good part of Long Island on the East; the Bay, ''Sant Punt'', and ''Hoogen Hoeck'' on the South; with Staten Island, ''Achter t' Col'', Newark Bay, the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, and
Coney Island
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("Conyni Eylant" in Harrisse or "Konyne Eylandt" in Castello) on the West. Sufficient of the surrounding country is shown to give a good idea of the comparative importance of the Island of Manhattan and its location with respect to the mainland.
It also includes an inset with the names of early Manhattan settlers.
See also
*
Castello Plan
The Castello Planofficially entitled ''Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt'' (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland")is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan from an o ...
References
External links
The Manatus Maps The Iconography of Manhattan Island
1639 works
17th-century maps and globes
History of New York City
Maps of cities
Maps of New York City
New York (state) maps
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