[Map showing Jonathan Carver's travels west of the Great Lakes.]

Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

[1766]

[Jonathan Carver]

Scale varies

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Explorers--United States--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Wisconsin--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Minnesota--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Iowa--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Iowa
• Minnesota
• North and Central America
• United States
• Wisconsin

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 26 x 34 cm

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• Relief shown pictorially
• A manuscript copy of Carver's engraved map (see Add Ms 8949.42. for the only known copy of a printed but unpublished version of Carver's second manuscript map, engraved by Thomas Kitchin - Bosse)
• Shows blank square at lower right, which is occupied by the dedication on the engraved map
• Compare Carver's original manuscript sketch map (see Add Ms 8949.41.)
• Bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir Joseph Banks.
• Copy at Add Ms 8950.102. Red stamp of British Museum to verso.