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A chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate VIII from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate III from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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Their sitting at meate [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate XVI from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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Ptolemaic World Map from ‘Geographia’ [Object]
When the works of the classical geographer, astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy began to emerge from obscurity in the early 1400s, his most famous book 'Geographia' (sometimes called 'Cosmographia') was...
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Allegory of Astronomy [Object]
Engraved plate number 7 from a set illustrating The Seven Liberal Arts – Astronomy appears in the guise of a winged goddess and is accompanied by an attentive navigator. She...
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Plan of St. Augustine (Florida) [Object]
With north at right, Boazio’s bird’s-eye view is the first printed map of a city in what was to become the United States. St Augustine had in fact been built...
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The Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleet… [Object]
First map from Walter Biggs' 'A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage'. Anti-Spanish feeling in England was running high in 1585. As a consequence, Sir...
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Plan of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic) [Object]
All four plans of the cities raided by Sir Francis Drake during his 1585–86 expedition to the West Indies have keys to the letters marked in various spots; these narrate...
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Latest blog posts
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July 17, 2019
Celebrating 50 years since the mission of Apollo 11
[19th century – taken from Emerin Semple scrapbook] We’re celebrating the first lunar landing this year at the American Museum […]
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September 12, 2018
New name, new gardens, new discoveries
With the launch of the transformed Mount Vernon and new New American Garden, we’ve taken the decision to change our […]
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June 1, 2018
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; oh and a loud bang and hot dog too
The 4th of July is one of those dates to remember; it seems to stick in the memory even if […]
