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MAP #: 323T5

CARTOGRAPHER : TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK

DATE: 1823

SHORT TITLE : VIRGINIA MARYLAND AND DELAWARE

REMAINING TITLE & ID : BY H.S. TANNER (TOP CENTER - NO CARTOUCHE, AGAINST CLOUD BACKGROUND). "AMERICAN ATLAS" (CENTER TOP MARGIN). "ENGRAVED & PUBLISHED BY H.S. TANNER, PHILADELPHIA." (CENTER BOTTOM MARGIN). "ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS 20th DAY OF DECr. 1820. BY H.S. TANNER, OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA." (RIGHT, BOTTOM MARGIN). SCALES IN AMERICAN MILES AND GEOGRAPHICAL MILES (BOTTOM CENTER ABOVE EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS). THE MAP EXTENDS THROUGH THE NEAT LINE ON THE LOWER LEFT SIDE. LONGITUDE WEST FROM GREENWICH (BOTTOM BORDER) AND FROM WASHINGTON (TOP BORDER). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS)


DATE OF PUBLICATION : R1823 (1821)
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : PHILADELPHIA
PUBLISHER : H.S. TANNER
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 51.6 X 72.5 CM.
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 58.4 X 79.6 CM. OM
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 1,110,000
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : MSA SC1399-545
# 2 : MSA SC1399-281 (1825 STATE)
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : SW015-NDN
# 2 : N018-N2 (1825 STATE)
REGION CATEGORY : GENERAL MAP OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE TO A MD/CHESAPEAKE COLLECTION (3)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : VIRGINIA MAP PRIMARILY (13)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : N IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE.
CARTOUCHE : NONE (1)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : LONDON AND WASHINGTON (8)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 325T5.
BEST INFO SOURCE : RISTOW, AND PHILLIPS ATLASES ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED MAP SHOWS MAIN ROADS, CANALS, COUNTIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, DISTANCES FROM TOWNS TO THE STATE CAPITAL AND THOSE FROM STATE CAPITALS TO WASHINGTON, D.C. THE AREAS OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE ARE COLORED, WITH OTHER AREAS BLACK AND WHITE.

THE MAP FIRST APPEARED IN PART III OF A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS, FOL., PHILADELPHIA: H. S. TANNER, WHICH WAS ISSUED IN 5 PARTS OVER A PERIOD FROM 1818 TO 1823. PART III HAS A NOTICE DATED JAN. 1, 1821. THE TITLE OF THAT FIRST STATE OF THE MAP WAS "VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. 1820." ADDITIONAL ISSUES WERE IN THE SAME PUBLICATION, PUBLISHED IN PHILADELPHIA BY TANNER, VALLANCE, KEARNEY & CO. IN 1821, THE TANNER 1823 ISSUE (FROM WHICH THE MAP DESCRIBED WAS TAKEN),THE 1825 TANNER ISSUE, THE 1833 AND THE 1839 ISSUES OF THE SAME ATLAS. THESE ISSUES HAVE NOT YET BEEN COMPARED.

RISTOW DESCRIBED THE NEW AMERICAN ATLAS "AS ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT ATLASES EVER PUBLISHED OF THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS ALSO ONE OF THE LAST AMERICAN ATLASES PUBLISHED DURING THE PERIOD IN WHICH MAPS WERE STILL ENGRAVED". THE TITLE PAGE OF THIS ATLAS WAS DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY JOSEPH PICKENS. RISTOW CONTINUES, "HENRY S. TANNER, YOUNGER BROTHER OF BENJAMIN TANNER, WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1786. HE MOVED TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1810 TO JOIN HIS OLDER BROTHER, WHO WAS AN ESTABLISHED ENGRAVER TRAINED BY PETER MAVERICK, ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S EARLIEST ENGRAVERS. TANNER SERVED AS BENJAMIN'S APPRENTICE." HENRY ENGRAVED FOR JOHN MELISH, WHICH MAY HAVE CAUSED HIM TO BECOME INTERESTED IN MAP PUBLISHING, AN ACTIVITY HE ENTERED AROUND 1820. TANNER'S ATLASES REPRESENTED A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN ATLAS PRODUCTION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. TANNER DIED IN 1856.

DATA IS FROM RISTOW, PHILLIPS ATLASES AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE COPIES IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.

EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY THE 1823 AND 1825 ISSUES HAVE BEEN EXAMINED PERSONALLY. BOTH ARE IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION. PHILLIPS LISTS THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:

ONE STATE - (1821) - APPEARED IN Pt. III OF A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS, FOL., PHILADELPHIA: H.S. TANNER. IT WAS ISSUED IN 5 PARTS OVER A PERIOD FROM 1818 TO 1823. Pt. III HAS A NOTICE DATED JANUARY 1st 1821. IN THIS STATE THE MAP WAS "PUBLISHED BY H.S. TANNER, PHILADa." THE MAP TITLE IS "VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. 1820." THIS MAP HAS NOT YET BEEN EXAMINED.

ANOTHER ISSUE - (1821) - APPEARED IN THE SAME ATLAS PUBLISHED BY TANNER, VALLANCE, KEARNEY & CO. THE TITLE APPARENTLY WAS UNCHANGED.

ANOTHER STATE - (1823) IN SAME ATLAS, PUBLISHED BY H.S. TANNER AS MAP # 15. THE MAP IS ENTITLED "VIRGINIA MARYLAND AND DELAWARE BY H.S. TANNER". IT WAS "ENGRAVED & PUBLISHED BY H.S. TANNER, PHILADELPHIA." (CENTER BOTTOM MARGIN). IT WAS "ENTERED...20th DAY OF DECr. 1820 BY H.S. TANNER..." (RIGHT BOTTOM MARGIN). THIS IS THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN.

ANOTHER STATE - (1825) - IT WAS THE 11TH MAP IN THE SAME ATLAS, 1825 EDITION. BELOW THE NEAT LINE THE INSCRIPTION IS EXPANDED TO READ "IMPROVED TO 1825". SEE MAP # 325T7.

ANOTHER STATE - (1833) - IT WAS THE 11TH MAP IN THE SAME ATLAS, 1833 EDITION. THE MAP APPARENTLY IS DATED 1833, ALTHOUGH WHERE THAT APPEARS ON THE MAP HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

ANOTHER STATE - (1839) - THE MAP APPEARED AS THE 8TH IN THE 1839 EDITION OF THE SAME ATLAS. THE YEAR 1839 MAY BE ON THE MAP, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NOT EXAMAINED A COPY AND DO NOT KNOW THIS FOR CERTAIN.

DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS ATLASES, EXCEPT FOR THE 1823 ANS 1825 ISSUES, WHICH ARE BASED ON OBSERVATION OF THE COPIES IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A GOOD COLORED COPY OF THE 1823 STATE WITH FULL MARGINS. IT HAS A TEAR ALONG THE CENTERFOLD AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. IT HAS AN ACQ. # OF SW015-NDN AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-545. THE COLLECTION ALSO HAS A GOOD COLORED COPY OF THE 1825 STATE WITH AN ACQ. # OF N018-N2 AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-281.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., A 1971 REPRINT OF A 1909 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION,# 4462 (1821), # 4463 (1821), #1374 (1823), # 4523a (1823), # 3669 (1825), # 1376 (1833), # 1382 (1839); RISTOW, WALTER W., AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS COMMERCIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, DETROIT: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1985, 154, 179-180, 266; MATHEWS, EDWARD B., "BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF MARYLAND", IN MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION, VOL. 1, PART IV, BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1897, 362, 365; SWEM, EARL G., MAPS RELATING TO VIRGINIA IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES, 1989 REPRINT IN BOOK FORM OF AN ARTICLE IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY BULLETIN OF 1914, # 484 (1823 STATE), # 588 (1833 STATE).

August 4, 1991


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