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Material Information
- Title:
- Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane
- Alternate Title:
- Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ol. Canadae et Floridae Adpellatione in Septemtrionali America Descriptae quae Hodie Nomine Fluminis Mississippi vel St. Louis . . . edita cura et manu Matthaei Seutteri, Chalcog. Augustan. ; Gottfr. Rogg, del. M. Rhein, sc.(inset) "Les costes de la Louisiane depuis la baye de Ascension jusques acelle de S. Joseph.
- Creator:
- Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
- Place of Publication:
- Augsburg, Germany
- Publisher:
- No Publisher
- Manufacturer:
- Rein, Melchior
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- Physical Description:
- 57 x 49 cm
- Scale:
- 1:12,000,000
Notes
- General Note:
- Hand colored map of Seutter's Mississippi Bubble map, depicting the short-lived French financial-colonial scheme masterminded by Scottish financier John Law. Map shows early eighteenth century geography, settlements, and territories in North America focusing on the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes and distant chart. A large inset of the Gulf Coast shows many forts and Indian villages. Elaborate title cartouche, depicts an allegorical, satirical scene of the infamous Mississippi Bubble investment scheme with a female personification of the Mississippi River pouring jewels and riches forth, while she is perched precariously upon a bubble. Cherubs above the cartouche are issuing stock for the company, and another group is blowing bubbles in the foreground surrounded by piles of worthless stocks. In the background, desperate investors climb a small tree and fling themselves out of it, and in the foreground more disconsolate investors wail and bemoan their fates as one tries to impale himself on his sword. Above them, a cherub upends an empty money-bag.
- Attribution:
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record Information
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- 8155.000 ( Local List No )
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