Description:
As Geographer to the King, Beaurain had access to the manuscript plans of French officers. This map, done during the American Revolution, is one of several military maps published by Beaurain in the 1760s and 1770s. An allegorical image of the Roman deity Mars, standing beside an inset map of the Hudson River Valley with cannon and other armaments at his feet, represents the war between Britain and her American colonies. The winged figure of Fame supports the inset map and reports on events with her trumpet. Map depicting eastern North America probably removed from a folio. The map cartouche in the upper left corner notes that it is dedicated to Msgr. de Sartine, Minister of Marine, and printed by M. de Beaurain, Geographer to the King, of Rue Gillecoeur in the St. Andre des Arts quarter. The map is identified on the reverse as "English and the insurgebts" and by "No. 69" in ink. The map shows the continent from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas, and from the tip of Florida north to southern Canada. Deerfield is included in the towns shown in Massachusetts. An inset map titled Le Nouvelle York d'une partie de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Pensilvany depicts the area from the Connecticut River Valley westward to Lake Ontario. The inset map is enclosed in a scroll being unfurled by a trumpeting figure of Fame, with the figure of Mars in armor with military weapons and insignia below. This inset includes Deerfield, Deerfield Meeting House, Sugarloaf, and many area towns. Includes the route of the Crown Point Road across Vermont, originally laid out for General Amherst during the French and Indian War.
Label Text:
As Geographer to the King, Beaurain had access to the manuscript plans of French officers. This map, done during the American Revolution, is one of several military maps published by Beaurain in the 1760s and 1770s. An allegorical image of the Roman deity Mars, standing beside an inset map of the Hudson River Valley with cannon and other armaments at his feet, represents the war between Britain and her American colonies. The winged figure of Fame supports the inset map and reports on events with her trumpet.
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