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WELLS, Philip, Surveyor-General of New York, attributed to]. [Untitled manuscript map of New York Harbor]. N.d., [ca 1683].

Auction 21.06.2005
21.06.2005
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
108.000 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 11

WELLS, Philip, Surveyor-General of New York, attributed to]. [Untitled manuscript map of New York Harbor]. N.d., [ca 1683].

Auction 21.06.2005
21.06.2005
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
108.000 $
Beschreibung:

WELLS, Philip, Surveyor-General of New York, attributed to]. [Untitled manuscript map of New York Harbor]. N.d., [ca 1683]. Manuscript map on paper (660 x 510 mm), place-names in a neat italic hand, larger labels in red ink, some sections hand colored in ochre, a decorative compass rose at bottom left, at top right the papered seal of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey, scale of miles at lower center. (Damaged and professionally repaired, a section at left-central portion lacking, smaller losses at top left and extreme left-hand margin.) Provenance : Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9). A UNIQUE, VERY IMPORTANT EARLY MAP OF MANHATTAN AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, THE PROTOTYPE FOR MANY LATER MAPS. ONE OF ONLY A FEW 17TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF NEW YORK STILL IN PRIVATE HANDS An exceptional manuscript map by Philip Wells, Surveyor-General for New York and one of the commissioners appointed to run the boundary line between the colonies of New York and Connecticut. He is known to have worked for the government of East Jersey as well, and is specifically cited in a letter to the Proprietors, dated 16 May 1683 (in the Minute Book, see lot 9) as having been the surveyor of Perth Amboy, capital of East New Jersey. Phelps-Stokes illustrates another manuscript map, signed by Wells, entitled "A sand drought of New York Harbour"; it appears to be a fair copy of the present manuscript map (Phelps-Stokes, pl. 21). Of Well's map, Phelps-Stokes writes: "This survey of the Harbour was evidently made shortly after February 23, 1684, when Governor Dongan ordered the Surveyor-General (Philip Wells) to make a survey of Staten Island." He adds that the map was discovered among Penn family papers "sold in London by E.G. Allen in 1871...now in the Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago." Wells's A sand draught is also illustrated in English Mapping of America, 1675-1715 . Wells's very decorative and colorful map shows the Raritan River at lower left, Staten Island (labeled "Being the Proprietors, 1682/3," and showing the location of Wells's own home), Perth Towne at Amboy Point, and Piscataway at the extreme left. Elizabethtown is situated at the center left. In the upper portion is Manhattan Island, the East River (labeled "Yorke River"); on Long Island are located the sites of Bushwick, "Brookland," Flushing, Flatbush, and other settlements. West of the Hudson is a tract labeled "Hossimes Farm, being the Proprietors," the village of "Berghen," and the course of the Hackensack and Passaick Rivers. Navigational data abounds: soundings in fathoms are neatly added in many of the waterways and harbors, and the sandbars or "bancks" carefully shaded in ochre. This map served as the basis for a succession of printed maps of New York produced by various map-makers well into the 18th century, including the Thornton-Morden-Lea map (the earliest printed chart of New York harbor, see Cohen and Augustyn, Manhattan in Maps , 1997, pp. 48-49) and maps by J. Carwitham (Stokes, pl. 27A; Cohen and Augustyn, p. 59), and Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America , 1733. The present manuscript prototype is illustrated in Cohen and Augustyn, pl. 261.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 11
Auktion:
Datum:
21.06.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

WELLS, Philip, Surveyor-General of New York, attributed to]. [Untitled manuscript map of New York Harbor]. N.d., [ca 1683]. Manuscript map on paper (660 x 510 mm), place-names in a neat italic hand, larger labels in red ink, some sections hand colored in ochre, a decorative compass rose at bottom left, at top right the papered seal of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey, scale of miles at lower center. (Damaged and professionally repaired, a section at left-central portion lacking, smaller losses at top left and extreme left-hand margin.) Provenance : Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9). A UNIQUE, VERY IMPORTANT EARLY MAP OF MANHATTAN AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, THE PROTOTYPE FOR MANY LATER MAPS. ONE OF ONLY A FEW 17TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF NEW YORK STILL IN PRIVATE HANDS An exceptional manuscript map by Philip Wells, Surveyor-General for New York and one of the commissioners appointed to run the boundary line between the colonies of New York and Connecticut. He is known to have worked for the government of East Jersey as well, and is specifically cited in a letter to the Proprietors, dated 16 May 1683 (in the Minute Book, see lot 9) as having been the surveyor of Perth Amboy, capital of East New Jersey. Phelps-Stokes illustrates another manuscript map, signed by Wells, entitled "A sand drought of New York Harbour"; it appears to be a fair copy of the present manuscript map (Phelps-Stokes, pl. 21). Of Well's map, Phelps-Stokes writes: "This survey of the Harbour was evidently made shortly after February 23, 1684, when Governor Dongan ordered the Surveyor-General (Philip Wells) to make a survey of Staten Island." He adds that the map was discovered among Penn family papers "sold in London by E.G. Allen in 1871...now in the Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago." Wells's A sand draught is also illustrated in English Mapping of America, 1675-1715 . Wells's very decorative and colorful map shows the Raritan River at lower left, Staten Island (labeled "Being the Proprietors, 1682/3," and showing the location of Wells's own home), Perth Towne at Amboy Point, and Piscataway at the extreme left. Elizabethtown is situated at the center left. In the upper portion is Manhattan Island, the East River (labeled "Yorke River"); on Long Island are located the sites of Bushwick, "Brookland," Flushing, Flatbush, and other settlements. West of the Hudson is a tract labeled "Hossimes Farm, being the Proprietors," the village of "Berghen," and the course of the Hackensack and Passaick Rivers. Navigational data abounds: soundings in fathoms are neatly added in many of the waterways and harbors, and the sandbars or "bancks" carefully shaded in ochre. This map served as the basis for a succession of printed maps of New York produced by various map-makers well into the 18th century, including the Thornton-Morden-Lea map (the earliest printed chart of New York harbor, see Cohen and Augustyn, Manhattan in Maps , 1997, pp. 48-49) and maps by J. Carwitham (Stokes, pl. 27A; Cohen and Augustyn, p. 59), and Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America , 1733. The present manuscript prototype is illustrated in Cohen and Augustyn, pl. 261.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 11
Auktion:
Datum:
21.06.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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