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1 ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession Number C-8102 File Name C-8102 Call number Cabinet Er832 / 1 Ms Map title This Plan of the Island of Montserrat... Place of Publication [Montserrat?] Publication date [ca. 1832] Map size height 59 cm. Map size width 35.2 cm. Item description manuscript, hand coloring Geographical description Map of Montserrat Island. Includes parishes, compass rose, location of roads, plantations, church, volcanoes, and gives indication of land use. Geographic Area Caribbean Normalized date 1832

2 ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession Number 8189 File Name 8189-30 Call number Cabinet Blathwayt 30 Map title Mountserrat Island 1673. Publication date 1673 Map size height 56.3 cm. Map size width 68.2 cm. Item description manuscript Geographical description Map of Montserrat Island in a series of coastal profiles showing the land as views from the sea. Items in the image are numbered and lettered for identification in extensive keys at corner of the map. Cartographic elements include locations of settlements, bays, and dwellings,compass rose, and topographical details. Decorative elements include ships, women or mermaids holding the flags of Ireland, Scotland, and England, figure of Pan playing pipes, a heraldic creature taking a sight with a navigational instrument [cross-staff?], and men carrying a bundle of reeds [sugar canes?]. Cartobibliographic notes No separate or detailed map of Montserrat was published during the seventeenth or eighteenth century, making this map of particular interest. The various figures on the map suggest that before the importation of slaves from Africa the labor was largely Irish peasants and Scottish prisoners of war. The two figures carrying the sugar cane are white and the three nationalities that comprised the population are represented by their flags. The draftsman is unknown.The Blathwayt Atlas is a collection of 48 maps assembled between 1680 and 1685 as a reference atlas for the Office of Trade and Plantations, compiled by William Blathwayt, Secretary to the Lords of Trade and Plantations. References Black, J.D., ed. Blathwayt Atlas, vol. II, p. 175-179 Geographic Area Caribbean Normalized date 1673

3 ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 23489 Record number 23489 JCB call number En757 B7 /1 Image title To the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Temple &c. &c. This View of English Harbour in the Island of Antiqua taken from the Hill at the Upper end... Creator 1 William Brasier Creator 1 role delin. Creator 2 Major Creator 2 role Sculp. Place image published [London] Image date [1757] Image function print Technique engraving Image dimension height 31 cm. Image dimension width 48.7 cm. Page dimension height 35.9 cm. Page dimension width 51.7 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description View of English Harbor at Antigua with Falmouth Harbor in the background, showing fortifications, ships, and dwellings. In the foreground, two Europeans survey the harbor (one with sketch pad, the artist?) with two black [slaves], one with a horse. Items in the image are numbered for identification in a key below. Included is Richard Grenville-Temple, earl Temple's coat of arms[?]. notes English Harbor served as the headquarters for the British Caribbean fleet during the late eighteenth century. Time Period 1751-1800 References http://www.geographia.com/antigua-barbuda/agharb01.htm (Mar. 2003) Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1961. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 Commentary Add a comment geographic area Caribbean Islands Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Antigua--Description and travel


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