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A New Accurate Atlas of Mexico or New Spain Together with California, New Mexico
A New Accurate Atlas of Mexico or New Spain Together with California, New Mexico
A New Accurate Atlas of Mexico or New Spain Together with California, New Mexico

A New Accurate Atlas of Mexico or New Spain Together with California, New Mexico

Artist (1694 - 1767 London, England)
Date1747
Mediumink on paper
Dimensions14 × 27 in. (35.6 × 68.6 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2015.26.33
DescriptionThis map is a finely colored example of Bowen's map of the future Southwestern and Southeastern United States, Baja California, Mexico, Central America, and the Gulf Coast region, centered on Texas, and published in London in 1747. Stretching from California to Florida and south to Panama, the map elegantly frames the region which was contested actively between Spain and England from 1739 to 1743. A curious historical note in the top left describes ""California, which has been Described and Represented as an island, even by very modern Geographers, was Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit, to be a Peninsula between the Years 1689 and 1701 who together with other Jesuit Missionaries traveled thither by Land & converted a great Number of Natives."" The map also includes an inset of the Galapagos Islands in the lower left based on a map by Captain Cowley in 1684. Next to this, and the map's title on a column containing a measurement key, is a European individual in colorful dress standing over two darker-skinned individuals, one with a green skirt and one with a white skirt and colorful headpiece, tied up with rope. Trees and greenery are behind them.
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