Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Thackara & Vallance.

Description

1. 1 map; 51 x 68 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 3.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. Real property > Washington (D.C.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. Washington (D.C.) > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6246

Note

1. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
2. Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.
3. Also covers Georgetown.
4. Watermark.
5. "In order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line ... "
6. Includes text, notes, and coat-of-arms.

Indexed in (note)

1. Wheat & Brun. Maps and charts published in America before 1800
2. Phillips. Maps of America

Author

1. Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.

Title

1. Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Thackara & Vallance, Philad'a 1792.

Imprint

1. [Philadelphia : s.n., 1792]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:19,800]. [Scale of 100 poles to an inch]

Local note

1. NYPL Map Div. copy has stamp on face of map: Map Division, Library of Congress. Stamps on verso: Library, Department of State, Dec. 31, 1881; Library of Congress by transfer from State Department.

Indexed in:

1. Wheat & Brun. Maps and charts published in America before 1800, 531
2. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 1002

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Thackara & Vallance.

LCCN

1. 88694160

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6246 [LHS 3]