A beautiful antique map depicting the Chesapeak, York & James Rivers in Virginia at the Seat of War in 1781. Wonderful soft muted colours, nicely framed and ready for the wall.
Possibly a later period copy based on the small "CW" logo in the lower right corner. Old Toronto gallery label on the back. W.Haines Artistic Picture Framing. Measures 19" x 15."
"This sea chart depicts the waters surrounding Virginia, the rivers, locations of the armies, Cornwallis' entrenchments, and the French fleet in the bay. Copies of this map are held in the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, the Huntingfield Map Collection at the Maryland State Archives, and in the New York Public Library. The map was originally published over a month after the British surrendered at Yorktown in The Political Magazine, London, 1781, vol. 2, p.624. It was also issued as a separate map. Coolie Verner suggested in Maps of the Yorktown Campaign that this map was based on William Faden's Plan of the Entrance of the Chesapeake published on November 26th 1781, just four days before J. Bew published this engraving. The lower margin reads: "London. Publish'd as the Act directs 30.th Nov.r 1781. by J. Bew. Pater Noster Row./ Jn.o" The scale reads: "Three Sea Leag.s or Nine Miles"
