Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804.

Description

1. 1 map : mounted on cloth and paper backing; 59 x 60 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 9.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Washington (D.C.) > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6249

Note

1. Based on the Samuel Hill engraved plan of 1792.
2. Cloth map.
3. Printed in blue.
4. Includes text, notes, and allegorical ill. in the 4 corners.

Indexed in (note)

1. Wheat & Brun. Maps and charts published in America before 1800 ;

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 / in order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line ...

Imprint

1. [Boston? : s.n., 1792?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:19,800].

Indexed in:

1. Wheat & Brun. Maps and charts published in America before 1800 ; 532

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804.

LCCN

1. 87693458

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6249 [LHS 9]