Features

  • Printed
  • Manuscript
  • Cartouche
  • Hand Coloring
  • Views
  • Animal
  • Surveys
  • Non-Map
  • Marginalia
  • Atlas

Printed

These maps were etched into plates by skilled artisans, allowing them to be printed multiple times, published, and sold widely. Image: detail from William Faden, A plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, 1776