Item number: NAU590
Framed Vintage Reproduction
1966
Maker: Barre Publishers
High-quality 1960s reproduction of the Des Barre's chart with Block Island, originally published in the Atlantic Neptune in the 1770s. The Atlantic Neptune is a monumental four volume atlas which was the most important collection of maps, charts and views of North America published in the eighteenth century. Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres and Samuel Holland (who surveyed the New England coast), among others, spent years surveying to create the most comprehensive charts of the coast of North America for the British Admiralty, finally published in 1777. This reproduction was made in 1966 by Barre Publishers, printed using a high-quality photograveur process to exactly replicate original charts in the collection of Augustus Loring, printed on high-quality rag paper and hand-colored. The process was so time consuming and expensive that the publisher abandoned the project part way through. This chart shows Block Island, Fishers Island, Montauk Point on Long Island, part of the Connecticut coast of Long Island Sound, and the western portion of Narragansett Bay. Matted and framed in a gold frame (frame is in fair condition with some signs of age). The chart is in very good condition with some minor spots. Measures approx. 30 x 23.5 inches. Total size framed is 37 x 28 inches. Also Available: the chart to the west of this showing Shelter Island.
Framed Vintage Reproduction from 1966
Item Number: NAU590